timschochet
Footballguy
President Trump congratulated the Chinese government this morning for the 70th anniversary of their bloody, murderous totalitarian regime.
I don’t have a problem with it. Any President would have issued the same statement. I’m glad we’re on good diplomatic terms with this country that is now the second most powerful on Earth and our main economic rival.
But all the same we shouldn’t celebrate too loudly. How long, how many more decades are the poor Chinese people going to suffer under this miserable dictatorship? China is rightfully proud of the fact that they are the oldest civilization on Earth, but during all that time they have never enjoyed the key principle of our own form of government: individual liberty. The one tiny place where they’ve had it is Hong Kong, thanks to a previous 150 years of British rule, and the Chinese government is trying to crush that.
I’m an optimist. Communism isn’t just a bad economic system; it’s evil. Someday this current government of China will be washed away, and hopefully freedom will take its place.
I don’t have a problem with it. Any President would have issued the same statement. I’m glad we’re on good diplomatic terms with this country that is now the second most powerful on Earth and our main economic rival.
But all the same we shouldn’t celebrate too loudly. How long, how many more decades are the poor Chinese people going to suffer under this miserable dictatorship? China is rightfully proud of the fact that they are the oldest civilization on Earth, but during all that time they have never enjoyed the key principle of our own form of government: individual liberty. The one tiny place where they’ve had it is Hong Kong, thanks to a previous 150 years of British rule, and the Chinese government is trying to crush that.
I’m an optimist. Communism isn’t just a bad economic system; it’s evil. Someday this current government of China will be washed away, and hopefully freedom will take its place.