I don't get the analogies between Chinese leaders and USA progressives. Would the commie Chinese impose a wealth tax of 8% on their most entrepreneurial citizens? Hell no. As Comrade Deng Xiaoping said, "To get rich is glorious." Would they pay $60 trillion for a new green new deal? Hell no.
I'd rather live in a country led by Chairman Xi than by Chairman Warren, Comrade Ocasio Cortez, or Colonel Sanders. At least Xi knows how to run a country.
Originally Posted by Tiny
you might have something there, if you compare the lack of a real killer instinct , thus far, in the American left to the Chinese communists
but our totalitarians are improving on that score rapidly
your own personal social credit score will soon track you more than your financial credit report ever did
and they are doing pretty good with merging state, media and industry so there will be no cacophony or alternative
and our home grown communists are politically overbearing, and obnoxious and controlling, while they are also personally selfish, hypocritical, and their rules are for others
so there again they are catching up to communistic standards
its unfair, really, to solely fault American communists with the failure to have the trains run on time, when theres still a smidgen of liberty in the united states