To the surprise of no one, really, St. Ronald was a crude, bile-filled racist, as newly released tapes reveal.
The tapes had been published in 2000, but the National Archives, to their shame, cut out the racist part "to protect" Reagan's privacy.
I noticed a number of present-day racists trying to soften the impact of the revelation by saying "it was a different time." Not that different, as we see.
Now the Africans get to use shoes, mainly importing it from China, the country the Africans were supporting back then, so enraging Reagan.
ReplyDeleteAs it turns out, the African bet paid off, it is not American shoes that are covering their feet, nor American investments moving their economies - but China's in both cases. Smart monkeys, maybe Ron would now say...
I am not persuaded that China's future is bright. The single-China policy flies in the face of 2,500 years of history, which has been disunity. Bit I am not persuaded that the future of the US is good, either, as at least 40% of our population are natural fascists.
ReplyDelete[Harry:] Bit I am not persuaded that the future of the US is good, either, as at least 40% of our population are natural fascists.
ReplyDeleteYou and Reza Aslan would make a lovely couple.
Harry,
ReplyDeleteI don't think the US or China will do any bad for the next 25 years. They are on top and will keep being there.
China has usually fractured because the wealthy south resented the political and military control of the north. Same dynamic now although the party is trying to create a national feeling, with some success, it looks like.
ReplyDeleteI expect the resentment of the wealth-producing south to turn against the army, which is incompetent and corrupt, not unexpected for an army that hasn't fought since the '60s and lost then. The PLA is ripe for a revolt by junior officers from southern families.
This is the longue duree; it would be possible for the party to interrupt the process but its ham-fisted handling of the Hong Kong dispute suggests it doesn't know how.
The US is an empire overstretched. If you are the world's reserve currency, your fiat money has only 2 positions: 100% confidence or 0%. The rightwingers complainn that the trillions we spend on our incompetent military are insufficient. No finite amount would be.
ReplyDeleteThe US has been supporting and imposing fascism around the world for 70 years. No surprise we are getting some back. A political balance of payments.
Whereas for China I foresee more revolution, for the US I foresee immiseration the Great Depression came near to destroying the country. Americans are less resilient now.
The US is an empire overstretched.
ReplyDeleteBy what measure?
If you are the world's reserve currency, your fiat money has only 2 positions: 100% confidence or 0%.
That is the stupidest thing I've read since the last time you wrote something completely indefensible.
How about this: if you are the world's reserve currency, your fiat money has to have more confidence then all the other options on offer.
The rightwingers complainn that the trillions we spend on our incompetent military are insufficient.
More stupidity on parade. The money we spend on the military has to be consistent with the national security strategy.
The US has been supporting and imposing fascism around the world for 70 years.
What is it with you and uncaused effects?
Ah, so you admit the US has been supporting fascism for 70 years. Little by little, the scales fall off the eyes.
ReplyDeleteAh, so you admit the US has been supporting fascism for 70 years. Little by little, the scales fall off the eyes.
ReplyDeleteNo, but I will admit it is completely obvious that compared to the horrors of communism, anything else was vastly preferable.
Notice, now that your ideology is in the dustbin of history, how many other things have changed for the better.
And also notice that your statement is foolish, ahistorical, nonsense. What fascism did we support in Germany, Japan, S. Korea, etc?
I am not into atrocity-mongering, but the US supported Franco when the argument that Phalangism was preferable was nonsense, since Franco had killed all the communists (and a great many people who were not communists).
ReplyDeleteAdenauer's regime was stuffed with real live Nazis, as even you accepted not so long ago. Syngman Rhee's government was violently antidemocratic and the various governments of Japan were (and are) full of apologists for the militarism of the '30s.
In each of your examples, the population -- as opposed to its government-- turned democratic and presented a wall against the return of outright fascism (which I hope but doubt Americans will replicate).
This calls into question the policy of supporting fascism elsewhere using the argument that in this or that place (Greece, Argentina, Congo, etc.) it was the only alternative to communism.
The US didn't just support fascism, it saw to its installation in places that already had functioning democracies (Iran, Chile, Guatemala). We had to awitvfor Kissinger and Kirkpatrick to come rightout in favor of fascism but tgat had been tge policy for generations already.
Me, I advise trying democracy first.
Me, I’d advise noticing that trying democracy in the face of violent communist insurgencies is invariably fatal to those making the attempt.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as a red-diaper baby who never lost his religion, communists can do no wrong, and resisting their depredations is always fascism.
How would we know? When did anyone make a trial of it?
ReplyDeleteYou mean except for every time elections were tried in the face of a communist insurgency? Seriously, you can’t be that blinkered.
ReplyDeleteCan you?