In China, the government provides homes, health care, and jobs, but not much in the way of US-style "freedom and democracy." In America, it's the other way around.
In America, if your job was sent to China and your house has been foreclosed, at least you've still got freedom and democracy. Freedom to pitch a tent on the sidewalk, and a democracy which, according to its apologists, is the envy of the world.
When America celebrated the "end of history" some thirty years ago, a tsunami of hubris and triumphalism overwhelmed the ruling class. Capitalism had prevailed! The free world, led by the USA, was now unchecked in sharing its freedom and democracy world-wide!
And we did. We brought freedom and democracy to Kosovo, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Libya, and to Syria, earning the enmity of hundreds of millions who remain convinced their lives were better before we bestowed our gifts upon them.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party, having missed the memo on the end of history, quietly doubled down on the treacherous communist policy of putting the needs of their people first. Instead of squandering hundreds of billions on foreign wars, they invested in infrastructure, education, and health care.
As China prospered, lifting hundreds of millions of her citizens out of poverty, America was going in the opposite direction, plunging tens of millions of Americans into poverty. Infrastructure was neglected. Public education was deliberately starved of funding. Universal health care remains impossible in the world's richest economy. America's many wars of choice forced millions of refugees from their bombed out shit-hole countries into Europe, there to return the favour by turning our NATO allies into shit-hole countries.
And here we are today. The club of true believers in American Exceptionalism shrinks daily. World-wide, anyone with eyes to see and a brain to process it would be hard-pressed to choose the US model as the one to emulate. China, on the other hand, looks better all the time!
That, my friends, is why it is essential for freedom-loving nations to humiliate China. If they're allowed to get away with providing housing, health care, and education to everyone who wants it, pretty soon other countries will be tempted to follow their path, thereby denying even more people freedom and democracy.
Enough is enough!
Freedom and democracy for Hong Kong!
Freedom and democracy for Taiwan!
FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY FOR EAST TURKESTAN NOW!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment