The joke relied on the fact that China isn’t a democracy not because they don’t have primaries but because they have a “president for life”
That was never mentioned in the joke though. The joke was sarcastically asking about primaries and candidates and other trappings specific to US president elections.
It’s also not true: China doesn’t have a “president for life”, so that makes even less sense. More to the point, the leader of China isn’t even determined by the position of President (in fact, “president” is just the English translation, and a bit of a dubious one), it’s mostly a ceremonial position customarily bestowed on, effectively, the Prime Minister.
their elections are largely ornamental and orchestrated by the CCP.
Well now we’ve just gone in a circle; the original joke was implying that China isn’t a democracy because it doesn’t have the electoral apparatus of a democracy, know we’re saying that it does have the apparatus of Democracy, but those don’t count because we don’t consider it a Democracy.
That was never mentioned in the joke though. The joke was sarcastically asking about primaries and candidates and other trappings specific to US president elections.
It’s also not true: China doesn’t have a “president for life”, so that makes even less sense. More to the point, the leader of China isn’t even determined by the position of President (in fact, “president” is just the English translation, and a bit of a dubious one), it’s mostly a ceremonial position customarily bestowed on, effectively, the Prime Minister.
Well now we’ve just gone in a circle; the original joke was implying that China isn’t a democracy because it doesn’t have the electoral apparatus of a democracy, know we’re saying that it does have the apparatus of Democracy, but those don’t count because we don’t consider it a Democracy.