How do you argue with someone to explain why Marxism-Leninism is more democratic than western liberal democracy, when they are deeply propagandized to think that only the western democracy is democratic and just and say that rich people are needed to make the economy work etc (all the usual talking points). I am not very good at this, when I say our democracy is not democratic they said I sound insane
I think the best way to approach this topic is to begin by breaking down the very concept of democracy. I think you should do your best to illustrate the fact that democracy is an spectrum and that. Even feudal Europe was in part “democratic”, even if it was extremely undemocratic.
Once there, i would simply point out at the facts, like the abysmal two party system, or the abhorrent approval rating of almost every single usa president in the past 100 years, or the fact that even though it has been the wealthiest nation on earth for 100 years TWENTY PERCENT OF ITS POPULATION CANNOT READ. And of course at the CPC approval rating and the wonders it had provided for the Chinese people.
And i would close it up with something like “Do you think that the two party dictatorship of the usa, serves its people better than the CPC?”.
I think this is a pretty good sketch of an argument.