freediver wrote on Mar 17
th, 2025 at 8:33am:
No. How can I disagree with meaningless gibberish?
Where's the gibberish in:
"the current global 'Trump era' chaos..."
Your tiny mind incapable of understanding that? OR simply too ideologically blind?
(Hint: see the global uproar over Trump's tariffs, condemned by mainstream economists)
" was/is caused by the failure of US capitalism under WTO (free-trade/free-market) rules to compete with China?"
..and Trump is now fuming because the US can't build ships anymore, while China has taken the number one ship building spot - as a result of WTO trade rules informed by mainstream "comparative advantage" dogma.
Quote:Was it Karl's fault, or the CCP's fault, that the CCP starved 50 million people to death?
The CCPs, of course, before they changed course in 1990.
But the reason why the US can't compete with China now - without resorting to a trade war - is a
one-party consensus meritocracy has the
potential to be more efficient than an adversarial multi party rabble - and China has fully manifested that potential since 1990, aka 'the Chinese miracle'.
You are too bent on attacking alternatives to
adversarial-party democracy because you are a delusional 'democracy equals freedom' ideologue, and can only see policy arrived at by consensus eg, in the recent 'two sessions" governing conference in China, as anathema - because the delegates weren't chosen by a fixed-interval vote of the entire electorate , but by a consensus of interested people beginning at the local ('grass-roots') level.
Trump is certainly showing us how to deal with his adversaries at home, and abroad.