Sorry to disappoint you, but I probably know more about Chinese history than I do about North American. Are you informed on the topic enough to actually discuss it?

Do you know about the immensely terrible mismanagement of the nation under the Qing dynasty? How about how they dealt with the Taiping rebellion? Or their constant paranoia about potential Han Chinese uprisings and their prevailing censorship as a result? Or perhaps their cruel and unusual literary inquisitions? You can draw many parallels between the Qing dynasty and the CCP, even though the latter hates to be compared to any imperial dynasty.

Without elaborating too much on the topic, I do think the Song dynasty was overall the kindest to its own citizenry. (Nowhere is this more accentuated than by the reign of Emperor Renzong.) Both the Song and Ming dynasties were a far cry better than the Yuan and Qing (although even the Yuan was much better than the Qing, if only for the reason that Mongols tended to assimilate more easily with their ruled peoples). The ROC regime, despite a host of issues caused by the fact that China was still in a period of typical inter-dynastic chaos, would have grown into a far more benevolent regime because the mindset of its leaders were far more standard in terms of their alignment with traditional Chinese culture. (Chinese politics and philosophy is in itself a complex topic, but...)