China
When it comes to China it seems that there's agreement on most sides that we should "push back on China.". Yet again I see the rich (after selling out most Americans, and I don't just mean manufacturing things in China, but failing to make sure something else was in place, and I'm talking about everything from infrastructure investment to R&D investment to Public health.. you know just make us the leader in ideas) using the foreign bogeyman as a way to get off scot-free.
To that end this video is a good starter on the differences between the propaganda and the truth. One, that this is democracy versus communism[1] ala the US vs USSR (Cold War part 2) is touted by many people on the center left as well as the right and is more unthinking that I've grown weary of. The video discusses how we're really not a democracy (the civil rights movement and its resulting laws that expanded democracy have been beat back quite a bit over the past few decades) and are more a plutocracy that has failed its people. And China has actually helped its people.
In fact, unlike the previous face-off between US and the USSR, we now have a plutocracy versus a meritocracy (that's the statement made in the video, I'm not sure I agree on the meritocracy part, but I will agree on the plutocracy). And we also have one that has worked for its people and another that hasn't. They also make the point that the US is more like the USSR in terms of a rigid domestic system which can't seem to do the right thing no matter what (Covid being another example).
The video makes the case for less geopolitical rivalry and more cooperation.
I agree.
But the video does not mention how important it is. Not just for the face-off and possible tensions that could result in nuclear war (there are no agreements right now), but for the coming crisis we will need to face together: Climate Change.
But both sides are enjoying the chanting. Let's hope that they stop to think.
[1] If you're going to call China's 21st century Marxism "communism", which it very much isn't.
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To that end this video is a good starter on the differences between the propaganda and the truth. One, that this is democracy versus communism[1] ala the US vs USSR (Cold War part 2) is touted by many people on the center left as well as the right and is more unthinking that I've grown weary of. The video discusses how we're really not a democracy (the civil rights movement and its resulting laws that expanded democracy have been beat back quite a bit over the past few decades) and are more a plutocracy that has failed its people. And China has actually helped its people.
In fact, unlike the previous face-off between US and the USSR, we now have a plutocracy versus a meritocracy (that's the statement made in the video, I'm not sure I agree on the meritocracy part, but I will agree on the plutocracy). And we also have one that has worked for its people and another that hasn't. They also make the point that the US is more like the USSR in terms of a rigid domestic system which can't seem to do the right thing no matter what (Covid being another example).
The video makes the case for less geopolitical rivalry and more cooperation.
I agree.
But the video does not mention how important it is. Not just for the face-off and possible tensions that could result in nuclear war (there are no agreements right now), but for the coming crisis we will need to face together: Climate Change.
But both sides are enjoying the chanting. Let's hope that they stop to think.
[1] If you're going to call China's 21st century Marxism "communism", which it very much isn't.
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