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Most people with terrible habits, like smoking, eating too much, drinking too much, usually have a tough time kicking that habit. For example, imagine an overweight smoker, who goes to the doctor for a checkup, year after year, gets told over and over again to lose weight and stop smoking, otherwise they will die. However, year after year, they continue in the same pattern, and get told the same thing, year after year. They never change.
But then, some major cataclysmic event hits their life: a good friend dies suddenly, or they have a heart attack and survive. This major event is a wake up call, and all of a sudden they are motivated to change. They go on a diet, lose weight, stop smoking, exercise, suddenly, after this heart attack moment, they realize they need to drastically change, in the same way that their doctor had been telling them to change for the longest time.
But they absolutely needed that heart attack moment in order to change. Without that heart attack moment, they would have just continued doing what they were doing until they DID die of a heart attack one day, probably much sooner that expected.
So this is America. We are fiscally overweight, can barely walk, are finding it difficult to do things, and we can’t cut our addiction to spending. We’ve been told over and over what we need to do in order to get healthy, but year after year, we don’t do it.
Sometimes I think that elections are heart attack moments for this country, but most of the time we are switching out one boss for another boss, who is the same as the old boss. 9/11 was a heart attack moment for America, and we changed the way we do security and since then we’ve had no major incidents.
So my question is: can we change fiscally unless we have a fiscal heart attack moment? And what kind of heart attack moment could happen in order for us to change fiscally, at least enough so that we can survive. Some could argue that we’ve already had our heart attack moment, but if you ask me, unless it shakes almost all Americans down to their very core, like 9/11 did, then I don’t see much fiscal change in future.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not wishing for some financial calamity, but I’m increasingly thinking that without one, we’ll be just like that overweight patient: constantly being told to do something, and never doing it, until we die of a massive heart attack.
If you’ve listened to my show for any length of time, you’ve probably heard my rantings on China, and the Democrats strange love for China.
I first noticed it when Hillary Diane Clinton came to the forefront as a possible Democratic presidential candidate. Back then, she used to talk effusively about how wonderful China was, and totally glossed over all of the murdering, torturing, and jailing of people who simply wanted to speak out, mostly in peaceful protest, against an all encompassing, all powerful, tyrannical state.
For some reason, Democrats seem to have this, oh I don’t know how to describe it other than a “schoolgirl crush” for China. I mean, usually a schoolgirl crush connotes this total subservience, complete longing, they can do no wrong attitude towards someone, forgetting all their faults and issues, even if they are major ones. Like women who fall for the “bad boy”, the Democrats would love to kiss China full on the lips if they could.
But I digress. I think the reason that they love China so much is that China, to them, is almost a perfect country: they would absolutely love us to be a lot more like them. They love that China is an economic engine, they love that China’s elites make tons of money, they love that the rest of the country lives in terrible poverty (they don’t care about those people) and one of the things that they love most of all is the state’s amazing ability to curb free speech. I think of all of the traits China has right now, the ability to suppress speech that criticizes the government is the thing that they are most passionate about bringing to America.
Of course, I have no idea how they reconcile their love for social freedoms which so much suppression, but I guess it the same kind of attitude that allows democrat women who are all for women’s rights, to support Islamic fundamentalists. Liberals can live with these kinds of dichotomies, but we can’t.
So just watch out: the Democrats love China so much that they would love to duplicate “China’s Success” here, even if it means the elites win and the rest of us live in grinding poverty. They don’t care much for “flyover country” anyways, do they?
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