Thomas Friedman Channels a Chinese Communist
8th December 2010
Shocking I know. But it does illustrate that Friedman thinks the Communist Chinese as clueless about America as he has so often demonstrated himself to be.
Consider the following gem:
Americans just had what they call an “election.” Best we could tell it involved one congressman trying to raise more money than the other (all from businesses they are supposed to be regulating) so he could tell bigger lies on TV more often about the other guy before the other guy could do it to him. This leaves us relieved. It means America will do nothing serious to fix its structural problems: a ballooning deficit, declining educational performance, crumbling infrastructure and diminished immigration of new talent.
Of course, it wouldn’t surprise a Normal Intelligent Adult that a Chinese Communist functionary wouldn’t recognize an election — after all, they dispensed with such nonsense long ago — but it apparently surprises Friedman?
And why not? Friedman wouldn’t recognize an election if it bit him on the butt, as this literary conceit demonstrates plainly.
His affection for the Communist Chinese viewpoint apparently keeps him from realizing that if the Congressmen in question didn’t have their regulatory hands on the throats of American business, then American business would not be paying them money, nor would the Congressmen in question be in a position to persuade them to do so.
No apparent recognition of the fact that, of all the liars in Congress, the highest percentage of them belong to the party that he supports, votes for, and keeps trying to push farther toward the Communist Chinese point of view. (The Communist Chinese, of course, are world-famous for their truth-telling at all costs.)
And, of course, a Normal Intelligent Adult would point out that the structural problems Ballooning Deficit and Declining Educational Performance are the direct consequence of people like Friedman being in control of the levers of power, that Crumbling Infrastructure is a direct consequence of the fact that people who build roads (and people who pay for them) are required to pay confiscatory Union rates by the very same sort of politician that Friedman would vote for (Democrat), and that Declining Immigration of New Talent doesn’t hold a candle to the problem of Increasing Immigation of Illegal Refugees From the Mexican Drug Wars.
But, then, a Normal Intelligent Adult really has no incentive to interact with Friedman at all; talking to a post would be so much more productive.