Posted on 01/25/2024 5:15:11 AM PST by FarCenter
Or alternatively, the US could short circuit China’s cadre strategy by slapping big huge honkin’ tariffs on China.
Yes. And there are many American pundits and progressive types who think DC central-planning is the proper response to China's central planning.
Lenin realized that communism could not produce needed resources, so he instituted the New Economic Policy, the NEP, a limited capitalism. Stalin ended it, which starved millions. Mao’s land reform tried the same thing, but it did not work because the peasants had no idea how to manage farms. Millions starved to death.
Central planning fails partly because power corrupts, and attracts corruptible people.
I believe that the current CCP is not going to reimplement agricultural communes.
I believe the new China Socialism will be based on the vast array of manufacturing entities that are in fact corporations of a sort controlled by the CCP. The New China will be based on industrial communes
We’ll see. Big government control rarely works, which encourages bigger government, which doesn’t work.
Diversity isn’t the problem. The problem is Biden is attempting to sink the ship by giving us more people than can be assimilated. By the time the ‘elties’ figure out what’s happening it’ll be too late. God please help Trump regain power and save the country.
Back in the day I used to be in the cable TV business.
Your comment is very interesting.
As you say in the old days our installers were great guys—hard working and honest to a fault.
The construction teams tended to be a little rough around the edges—my favorite story was when a bunch of them got too hot while building out Phoenix and jumped into a swimming pool.
The pool owner read us the riot act.
Lol.
Good one cgbg....
It’s happening right now with the hidden regulatory push for EV’s in a short timeframe by the EPA.
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