It’s so exclusive it took Xi 3 tries to get in, but it has 90 million members?
In a country that struggles with income inequality having a high bar seems like it’s in danger of just entrenching a new elite class.
edit: w/ 90 million you’re probably reaching a broad segment, I’m just saying this is a weird sort of elitism mixed with being broad.
It’s so exclusive it took Xi 3 tries to get in
For context, his dad was purged and Xi was sent down to the countryside, so there’s a little more going on there.
90 million people is around 8% of the adult population. The equivalent would be people in the US who went to “good” Universities. Basically anywhere in the top 50 schools per US News and World Report.
Functionally, that serves the same purpose here as CPC membership does.
Right, compare it to say SCOTUS where something like 3 of 9 went to the same elitist high school.
This sounds more like going to UCLA or UW or something. Pretty achievable barring really lousy circumstances.
The Atlantic (lol) did a story on America’s elite 10% for comparison
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/
I think you’re confusing exclusivity with minimum threshold of qualification.
I see what you’re saying, but it’s not like they sit in Ivory towers and laugh at the failed entrants, it’s like graduating from a school, and you can keep trying. Unlike a school, it’s not a minimum threshold for participating in society like a degree is here.
Or maybe it’s the same I dunno.
I know we’re used to just about any clueless person being part of a party and a politician, but “license to drive? You know I’d like to see some competency exhibited by people before they drive”
And 90 million members already make it the 2nd biggest political party in the world, I’m really not siding with you on it being elitist
I’m saying ~1/15th of the population does not paint a picture of an elitist party, but the rhetoric of even Xi needing 3 tries does. It’s contradictory, but it makes more sense when @KiaKaha reminded me that Xi had more complicated circumstances.
You’re totally right that having standards for entry isn’t elitist, that’s not what I meant. I’m not judging the CCP, just the post.
In some dynasties there were exams people took to determine if you could be a government official, it kind of reminds me of that tbh.
