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"China has good railways because China bad" is one hell of a bad take.
China isn't an autocracy any more than the US is, getting to vote which party gets to erode your rights and enact genocide on your behalf isn't democracy
Xi Jinping's third term is literally autocracy. President Cheeto would kill for that much power.
America as fucked up as we, are can bash our president and resist his power grabs as much as our oligarchy allows.
In China, you can't even post a whinnie the pooh cartoon because making an autocratic dictator look bad can't fly.
China doesn't have rapid shifts in infrastructure because China bad, it's because China has an autocratic dictatorship which allows for massive investment of resources without argument.
The US has massive investment of resources without argument too when it comes to the military industrial complex or to rescuing banks that have committed fraud, or to genocide Palestinians. The fact that it doesn't do so with basic infrastructure is because the oligarchs in the US don't want that, not because of a lack of oligarchs in power. They make it theatrical in congress, but look at the defense budged and the speed with which they approve multi-billion expenses that go into bombing kids in the middle east, suddenly the American democracy works expediently.
People talk about it and complain. there was and is debate on all those topics. You have lost in all the topics you are talking about, but it was fair and square.
A democracy would be voting for a party promising not to erode your rights and getting your rights not eroded. That's not what you get in the ol' US of A, anywhere in the west for that master