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IS AMERICA DOOMED? PART ONE
Powerline ^ | MARCH 15, 2021 | PAUL MIRENGOFF

Posted on 03/15/2021 11:46:58 AM PDT by Hojczyk

But maybe so. David Goldman foresees China vastly outstripping America because it is a merciless meritocracy whereas America increasingly is at war with that very idea (the NFL and other sports leagues excepted). America will no longer offer, as an alternative to China, “a democratic meritocracy that rewards achievement while honoring the rights of the individual.” And since “meritocracy will win, because it always does, and all the more so in a high-tech, winner-take-all world,” the Chinese version of it — “a merciless meritocracy that treats the losers like so much detritus” — will prevail in the absence of a different version.

I was particularly struck by this passage in Goldman’s piece:

China graduates six times as many STEM students as we do. A third of undergrads major in engineering vs 5%-6% in the U.S. China’s educational system, to be sure, favors the grind who memorizes exam answers over the maverick who asks deep questions. As we turn our schools into ideological indoctrination centers, though, what kind of creative minds will survive them?

U.S. education, at least at the K-12 level, has long been less rigorous not just than China’s but than that of advanced European nations, too. Our competitive advantage has been the fostering of creativity and at the university level.

But, as Goldman makes clear, that advantage is being squandered by ideological indoctrination, including at universities. This probably means we will be left disadvantaged across the board. And, if so, probably doomed.

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1 posted on 03/15/2021 11:46:58 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Part One? America is doomed. End of Story.


2 posted on 03/15/2021 11:50:49 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Hojczyk

I know Bill Maher is a liberal, but every now and then he gets some things right.

This is one of them:

https://youtu.be/2DH4v6FnbvM


3 posted on 03/15/2021 11:54:24 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: Hojczyk

They state it like it might be a future event. With the blatant theft of a Presidential election and the blatant theft of multiple Senate seats with no blowback, America ended 3 Nov 2020. We are no in the post-Republic transformation and power consolidation.


4 posted on 03/15/2021 11:55:07 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Hojczyk
The notion that China is a ruthless meritocracy is laughable on its face.

The CCP is enormously corrupt, and China is following the same policy as Japan did: mercantilist, export driven growth in some industries so their profits subsidize grossly inefficient and corrupt industries in other areas.

Decouple and the CCP will have to deal with tens of millions very unhappy unemployed Chinese.

5 posted on 03/15/2021 11:56:54 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Hojczyk

Why yes, yes we are.


6 posted on 03/15/2021 12:00:26 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Hojczyk

China a meritocracy? lol. Maybe in an intellectual piracy sort of way. They aren’t catching up to the US. The US is falling to their level.


7 posted on 03/15/2021 12:01:01 PM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: Hojczyk

Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world


8 posted on 03/15/2021 12:01:38 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: spetznaz

Bannon played it this morning, once in a great while Maher does get it right. I liked his stand on allowing Arabs to over run America.


9 posted on 03/15/2021 12:02:22 PM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: brownsfan

Seems it really got going in 2008.

I’m very sorry to say.

All that the Left take for granted, they are trying to destroy. But, they know (in their minds) that they are smarter (Romans 1:22) so it’s all going to be better. Or so they think.


10 posted on 03/15/2021 12:03:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hojczyk

China is a meritocracy? Then what is Hong Kong fighting against?


11 posted on 03/15/2021 12:04:00 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: Hojczyk

The moment of doom will be the day the US dollar no longer is the world reserve currency. That will herald the day the Federal Reserve can no longer create money out of thin air.


12 posted on 03/15/2021 12:04:21 PM PDT by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: SaveFerris

“But, they know (in their minds) that they are smarter (Romans 1:22) so it’s all going to be better. Or so they think.”

I think they don’t care if it’s better. They know they will be in charge, and that’s really all that matters. Those in charge will live well, no matter what.


13 posted on 03/15/2021 12:08:11 PM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Irenic

Our death certificate was signed on the dotted line on November 3rd 2020.....

Born 1776 Died 2020

My she Rest In Peace...😢


14 posted on 03/15/2021 12:11:18 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Hojczyk

(the NFL and other sports leagues excepted)

Lol. Mkay.


15 posted on 03/15/2021 12:11:28 PM PDT by cdcdawg (“we have to bring these people in.”)
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To: RoseofTexas

Oops May


16 posted on 03/15/2021 12:12:16 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Hojczyk
"China vastly outstripping America because it is a merciless meritocracy"

Did you mean "autocracy"? Merit? Hardly.

17 posted on 03/15/2021 12:13:36 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (Dems no longer patriots, no longer liberals, no longer socialists. Dems=communists.)
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To: buckalfa

The Chinese and European governments should insist on treaty-based financial supervision rights over federal spending as a condition of continued dollar acceptance by the Bank of China and the ECB.

Biden and the Democrats will happily spend trillions of dollars until wallpaper becomes more valuable than dollars.


18 posted on 03/15/2021 12:13:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: brownsfan
It's how Pelosi and co. enrich themselves. They know that a certain percentage of the population is stuck on stupid and will keep giving them power.

They are shameless about it.

All they have to do is throw out "Global Warming", "Globalism", "Global Citizen" etc. (leaving a LOT off the list) and the fools come running.

I've always wondered how the Antichrist could fool so many people. I thought, no one would believe his lies, at least not that easily. Since 2008, it has been very obvious that it will be very, very easy. It's jaw-dropping. When I saw people changing church songs, to praise Barry, I knew America had turned a corner. I'm not saying he's the guy; I'm just saying he showed how easy it is to fool the reprobates.


19 posted on 03/15/2021 12:16:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: buckalfa

The Bretton Woods agreement had a fatal flaw: lack of an end date. Setting the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency should have been gradually phased out, returning to gold.

Probably far to late now to do so now. All the decline we have seen in our country in the modern era can be traced back to the inevitable misuse of the dollar that Breton Woods caused.


20 posted on 03/15/2021 12:17:15 PM PDT by Bob Stone (Satyameva Jayate - the Truth Alone Triumphs)
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