I get that there is nuance to why people feel some admiration for a strongman figure, but why not take the mask off and bring back monarchy and aristocracy, if people are getting tired of democracy and want to be ruled? Like those defending the rich and don’t want to raise taxes on them, in the hopes that they become rich themselves and would not vote against their own projected interest, do some people think they will become dictator themselves one day?
Its not an invasion, its “spreading democracy”
It’s not subjugating other cultures, it’s a “Liberation”
There’s a reason they call it the “People’s Liberation Army” and not “The People’s Oppression Army”, its branding. It makes people feel free.
Hong Kong is being “Liberated” from the British… PRC is all about liberating you fron colonialism, but don’t ask what 2019 was about, those are 100% rIoTeRs, duh. Liberation. So liberated there’s a firewall on the internet. So liberated it’s illegal to strike, so liberated my existence as a second-born is a crime. So liberated that rural people as in a different caste and never welcomed in cities.