Thank you! That’s the difference between rhetorical freedom and substantive freedom.

What gets me is how people will look at China’s poverty alleviation (800 million people lifted out of destitution, actual material liberation from hunger and desperation) and call that “authoritarianism”. Meanwhile, the US lets people die of treatable illnesses, go bankrupt from medical bills, and drown in student debt… and for some reason that’s perceived as natural.

And on wealth inequality, you’re right. The CPC doesn’t let billionaires write policy the way the Kochs, Bezos, or Musk do.