Cletus is done der going on a rant about them Chinese people, because he's heard things about sideways hoo-haas...
The vast majority of those living in Communist countrie will never even come close to the same standard of living we have in the US.
Uh, the same thing can be said about most of the world. Of course, since America has been in decline since Ronnie Ray-Gun, the Chinese might well surprass us.
China has a civilization that is over 3000 years old. It's had its ups and downs.
That is the simple truth. You are defending Communism, acting as if it is not that bad.
No form of government is inherently good or bad, and what the Chinese practice today can hardly be called "Communism". They traded in their Mao jackets for Blue Business suits a long time ago.
This type of thinking is exactly why you are a Democrat and why you are so quick to give up your freedoms.
You see, whenever I hear your type talk about Freedom, it usually means the ability of the rich to abuse the rest of us.
You certainly don't mean the right of a woman to decide what to do with her own body, or for a gay person to marry the person they love. Or for a black person to drive down the street without fear a thug cop will pull them over on a pretext.
When you are privileged, equality can seem like oppression.
We can only hope that your warped, spoiled and gullible mentality doesn't continue to spread, but then again, roaches are a real bugger to completely eradicate.
Actually, your values will eventually fail, because every year, you drive more and more people out of the middle class and into the poorer classes. If we voted PURELY on economic issues, nobody would vote for "Work harder for less money so the investor class can have more."
China is our enemy. For one, they steal intellectual property on a daily basis. What I find quite interesting is that when you search for "is China our enemy" you will find that liberal sources say no and conservative sources say yes.
Don't give a fuck about intellectual property. That's big corporations monopolizing the creativity of writers and musicians and artists. Again, you have this mentality that as long as the wealthy are doing okay, then all is good.
It really seems like the Chinese, along with the Russians, are trying to indoctrinate our youth.
Um, wait, you don't like the Russians now?
America is bad, Communism is ok, allowing illegals in with no control is ok, allowing the government to gain more and more control is only for you own good, religion is bad(major tenant of Communism), etc, etc, etc. It is a pretty bold tactic which requires patience, but it seems to be working.
Actually, it does because at the end of the day, all your side is selling is bigotries even you know are wrong.
We have an illegal problem because we didn't reform immigration 15 years ago when Bush wanted to. (And holy shit, I'm using Bush as a good example?)
Religion is bad because it's become pretty much the opposite of what Jesus called for. Republican Jesus hates gays and Mexicans, and loves rich people. Now, I might be a seriously lapsed Catholic, but that certainly wasn't the take I got from 12 years of Bible Study that called Greed a sin.