Posted on 09/09/2009 11:26:52 AM PDT by TitansAFC
Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The New York Times says America REALLY NEEDS a Chinese-style Autocracy, so that they can impose "the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century."
We need to thank the NY Times for finally showing us the democrat party agenda in full frontal view.
Game over.
He knows what's best for Amerika!
The New York Times showing it’s colors. Chinese Communism. I guess it’s an improvement from their Stalinism of the 1930’s.
It’s Thomas Friedman...it would be very unwise to expect much from that guy. He’s always been one comma short of a semi-colon...
‘a Chinese-style Autocracy’
Lol. We already do. They are called the Republicans & Democrats.
There teamwork has been destroying our Republic for years.
Chinese Communism also has only rarely had to deal with a mixed citizenry. The few times it has (e.g. Tibet) the non majority element definitely got the short end of the stick!
I always think of him as a complete colon.
We really do need to move these pukes to the top of the "to be purged" list.
(Just giving the whole NYT thing a "Chinese-like" environment)
(heh)
Thom Friedman+
Gimme Fascist Super-Romney Care
Gimme Fascist Cap and Trade
Damn the internet an’ stuff which make Republican and Democrat politician ashamed of their crookedness by exposing the bills they propose to the public.
Friedman is just another self-loather!
This man is totally insane!
That's where I stand. The left has become too bold, without the careful strategizing that traditionally gave them plausible deniability. Now they are just thumping their chests in their calls for a liberal Plutocracy, which they have desired all along.
I have begun to believe lately that Obama’s fall in the polls is actually more of a negative reaction to the Democrats’ actions in general since attaining total control of government than of his personal job performance. In truth, Obama himself has actually done very little since gaining power. But the left has become emboldened, believing that they have fundamentally shifted the country not from center-right to center-left, but from center-right to liberal, with spatterings of dissenters.
They think they can safely remove the veil now, and show their true colors without concern about backlash. They are in for a surprise.
“But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today”
The only thing “enlightened” that the Chinese autocrats share in common with this simpleton is hatred of America and the embrace of Communism..... how truly enlightened.
What next, how Stalin was just misunderstood and the Ukraine famine was just ‘growing pains’ of an enlightened form of governance?
Sure. That works for me. An “enlightened” one party.
And re-education camps for those who are not so enlightened.
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