China

Over the last twenty-five years we in the West take for granted the moral and ethical bankruptcy of Communism demonstrating its weakness as an economic and political system. Today it is difficult for generations that have grown up without the threat of Communism to understand how seductive it was. For the Cold War generations Marxism was not an esoteric form of despotism but a persuasive explanation of how the world works, however, the evidence seems clear that a society in which the educated are closely allied with the governing class is capable of a brilliant beginning but not of continued growth and development. Such a society often attains heights of excellence early in its career and then stops. Such was the case of East Germany and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union.


The vast majority of Marxists chose to define themselves as the new left; a form of elitist rebellion or rather an intellectual elite more characterized by fashion then action. However, in Europe many supported by Soviet intelligence services, KGB and military intelligence actively took action and killed, wounded, kidnapped, and bombed in pursuit of their political goals. The Soviet response to unrest in the 1980s by Gorbachev was Perestroika and Glasnost, openness and relaxation in an effort to bring a more human face to Marxist culture. Thus, The critical moment for the Communist regimes will come when they begin to reform, that is to say, when they begin to show liberal tendencies.


But will there ever be any real reform without violence? I think not. 

Artler, I remember this old puzzle back in high school. It was likely even earlier than that when a friend showed it to me. You had a grid of three by three equally-spaced dots and had to trace a straight line that ran through all them them using just four connected strokes without lifting your pencil. Get out a pencil and pad and try that right now.

Here’s the answer. But be a good sport and try it first.

My point is that within the framework of indoctrinated Leftism/Progressivism/Socialism, people are going to be asked to connect all these dots using four strokes. It will never occur to them to literally think outside the box. They will never question white guilt, group racism (aka “group identity), victimhood status of anyone who isn’t white, “climate change,” Christians as knuckle-dragging unscientific Troglodytes, and, of course, themselves as virtuous Golden Children, born special and never having to look back.

It’s Trump’s fault. America is racist. Big oil is bringing down climactic Armageddon. Men are pigs. Muslims are inherently peaceful. High taxes are good. Soaking the rich is the cure to all money problems. And on and on. You all know the spiel. You are all aware as anyone of the basic tenets of the Left…better than Leftists themselves.

And they can never make any of this work inside the box. And that’s because the answers aren’t inside the box. The answers require questioning their basic beliefs.

So what we are doomed to witness is not only the Left but the GOP trying to make things work inside this box. And it is a fool’s errand. And there is no shortage of fools.

And there is no shortage of boxes, but for the left all the boxes MUST be the same. 

Why the NBA Kowtowed to China by Tobia Hoonhout

Stated reason: Money
Unstated: Because they view your average American as the enemy, not Red China.

Summing up, Hoonhout writes:



The NBA and ESPN are not “woke” enough to care about the million Muslims in re-education camp. Why should they? These ideological goons have turned their sports programs into reeducation camps for the masses. [Disclaimer: I’m not sure that China isn’t doing the right thing in that regard.]

The link is to an article in the South China Morning Post which details how the USA is finally giving the PRC a taste of its own medicine as regards to diplomatic contacts in each other's country.

Reciprocity

Anyone who has lived or visited communist countries knows that foreigners in general are not allowed freedom to visit whomever one pleases. Till now, only the fools in our government seem to have played the game according to the commie rules which are basically, "We do what we want, but pretend to follow international treaties and agreements, but you must strictly abide by every such agreement down to the last comma."

This new USA policy is another wonderful result of Trump's harder-line policy toward China.