Posted on 05/25/2010 7:30:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
MR. GREGORY: Right. But what you stood up to was your opponent, which is not terribly courageous given that that's what you do in politics. What I'm asking is whether you are an Obama Democrat who supported stimulus, who supported health care, who's with him on all the major elements of his agenda. Are you or are you not an Obama Democrat?
MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, David, it's been decimated. It's been decimated by everything from the gerrymandering of political districts to cable television to an Internet where I can create a digital lynch mob against you from the left or right if I don't like where you're going, to the fact that money and politics is so out of control--really our Congress is a forum for legalized bribery. You know, that's really what, what it's come down to. So I don't--I, I--I'm worried about this, it's why I have fantasized--don't get me wrong--but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment. I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.
Maaaaa-aaan....
MSM shill interviewing printmedia whore...
And we call it news....
PUH-L-E-E-E-E-E-EZE
‘Progressives’ love tyranny.
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I’m worried about this, it’s why I have fantasized—don’t get me wrong—but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment. I don’t want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness.
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No, Tom, we cannot be China for a day.
Friedman wants democracy “with the same authority”, that is, totalitarianism.
The assertion is untenable.
And China?
I wouldn’t want to live in China for one second. It is a totalitarian, anti-individualist state.
Don’t think even for one second that China values anything from the West. In their eyes, we are the barbarians to be exploited and cowed.
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