Thread: Buchanan: Democracy — A Flickering Star?

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Democracy — A Flickering Star?

August 8, 2008 @ 10:04 am
By Patrick Buchanan

In his 1937 “Great Contemporaries,â€

[quote]“Eighty-six percent of Chinese people surveyed said they were content with the country’s direction, up from 48 percent in 2002. … And 82 percent of Chinese were satisfied with their national economy, up from 52 percent,â€

These former Communist countries had no where to go but up, of course their people will be happier. After a while this economic progress will stop, how will they feel then?

Even if the United States had a lot of discrimination and "injustice" 100 years ago, I think, now, the tables have been turned. True--- the wealthiest people may still be white, but if you are poor and white lots of luck in getting anywhere with any allegation of discrimination. Just ain't gonna happen. Because the Powers that Be, at present, simply do not recognize unfair treatment except to their own favored minority groups.

We have been invaded and subjugated already. From within.

Good points, WorriedAmerican. Both Russia and China's population have had a robotic response to their governments' direction, after having been inundated from birth that the government can do no wrong, and if you protest too much, it can mean instant death and continued torture for your family and friends. China still has the communist clamp on their citizens, and Russia, while declaring themselves a democracy, has sent many, many people to Lubyanka and the gulags for tax evasion, i.e. being too successful.

Churchill was referring not only to Hitler’s political triumphs — the return of the Saar and reoccupation of the Rhineland — but his economic achievements. By his fourth year in power, Hitler had pulled Germany out of the Depression, cut unemployment from 6 million to 1 million, grown the GNP 37 percent and increased auto production from 45,000 vehicles a year to 250,000. City and provincial deficits had vanished.




This may all be well and good but didn't he accomplish this by also greatly "cutting" the population by several million in ways which should never be admired let alone repeated?