โThe students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.โ
Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.
This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.
Read this part:
"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."
Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" ๐
Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.
Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.
Truth matters.
New Hampshire, where I'll be living for the next 4 months, doesn't require you to wear a helmet or pay for car insurance as the "live free or die" libertarian paradise, but weed isn't legal because the liquor stores are all owned, at least partially, by the state lmfao
Welcome to the next 5-10 years of Dem politics, we got it all
- โwhat is genocide really??โ metaphysics
- calls for investigations!
- One Bad Man Theory (โNetanyahuโ made a one-off error)
- Israel went โtoo farโ (how many dead Palestinians would have been just the right amount?)