Tom Friedman: There are worse things than Chinese autocracy

“There’s only one thing worse, in my view, than one-party autocracy — the Chinese system — and that’s one-party Democracy. Okay? See, one-party autocracy, at least if it has some vision of the future, can actually order the right things . . . collective action from the top down. But when you have one-party Democracy, that is, you have one party trying to do things and the other sticking a spoke in its wheels constantly, you can’t get anything big done. And that to me seems to be our real dilemma today.”