Where did they get this "WE" stuff?
I've been bitching about our Chinese trade since the early 1990s.
In what world did it make sense to reward a regime that both gunned down and drove tanks over it's own unarmed citizens? (unfortunately, ours)
It was a given that capitalism would work, make China quite wealthy, and create another massive headache to replace the Soviet Union.
I've said for several decades now, anyone associated with this policy should be lined up and shot.
I've also said our young kids will die in large numbers because of this, and we may have many more die on our home soil before this is over.
In the grossest sense of collectively, not that there were not dissenters. But it seemed like they were feeble breaths in a maelstrom.
And this etiolated (OK, I love long words) the economy, pushing the USA into less and less soft socialism.
It would have been a lot easier to teach China the virtues of Christian faith when it was still trying to get off the ground. Instead, the USA spent off what it had accumulated on the virtues of its own earlier Christian faith.
Trump is partly right. We could just walk on China. However what’s going to erect the replacement infrastructure? It used to be that faith in God to prosper would get people to part with fortunes for the sake of this. Now I fear it will be all like “no, YOU first.”
“Where did they get this “WE” stuff?”
The collective “we”, as in the US Congress, Presidents, Industry, Academia and Finance.
Hell, the entire “conservative” commentariat has been leading this effort since 1970.
They forgot that Conservatism without Nationalism is like Faith without Works. And likely to end in destruction.