Friedman, you magnificent putz!
Only if I get to be the dictator. And my first diktat is, I prefer the title of Queen.
If I were king...
Robert Heinlein once said that given a choice between a benevolent dictatorship and an efficient democracy, he’d take the benevolent dictatorship. The problem is that both are equally rare.
Thomas Friedman advocates dictorship in an op-ed published 2 days before the anniverary of 9/11.”
I will put a couple of dollars into the fund that buys Freidman a ONE WAY ticket to Chavezville, and let him see up close how he likes that status of living.
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool!”... Paul Begalice................
"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..."
- Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Yep. Sometimes the distance between “liberal” and “hardcore Stalinist” isn’t that great after all.
Surprising how many Dems and Libtards are revealing-—more like outright flaunting—their true ideological colors.
It must be cool and en vogue to be a Communist or Socialists these days, huh?
It’s impossible to read any of Friedman’s stuff and not come away with the clear impression that he spends a lot of time imagining himself as dictator and much admiring the notion.
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.
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I am speechless! Friedman could house about 300 people in one of his mansions, so I wonder why he doesn’t practice real communism and share his wealth. I guess he would be happy in a communist country because he would be one of the oligarchs, who would be more equal than the rest of us on the animal farm.
Of course, we know who those "reasonably enlightened group" is. I'm shocked Friedman didn't come up with this argument under Bush I or II, or Reagan?
“Bushitler” was just clever wordplay. The contrast with the serious, unapologetic, in-your-face fascism advocated by the author of this article is stark.
I doubt the author had any problem with calling Dubya “Bushitler.” But then, why should he have? He wants the POTUS to be der Fuhrer.
The fact that FRIEDman even has a job, and was given a Nobel, no less; speaks volums about the state of the World. I am amazed at their sheer level of willful ignorance to evil.
Well! ..why didn’t little Tommie tell us this while George Bush was President?
I wonder if he felt that way when Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress?
Anyone who thinks the Neocoms are going to be benevolent and enlightened hasn’t been paying attention. The kooks may want 0bama for their Dear Leader, but they will not like it when they see what it brings for the 21st Century.
Yeah, how many of its own citizens have the Chi-coms killed? Like, 65 million? Small potatoes compared to all the “social justice” and manufacturing power they’ve been able to deliver.
Friedman is just another Free-Trader Anti-American Liberal Globalist (FLAG)....and the scary part of Friedman is so many neo-cons and nearly-coms agree with him.
Some of the comments from his article have even been mentioned, indirectly, by some of the Free-Trade supporters her on FR...especially the praise for Communist China