China Says U.S. Debate Over Trump’s Mental Health Shows Democracy Is Dying
This is interesting, when China says democracy is dying, we are in deep doo. "Although since World War II U.S. presidents have often come under attack, Trump is the first to have his mental health questioned. This shows the waning quality of U.S. democratic politics," Global Times wrote in one of its latest editorials."
Anyone who seeks to occupy the highest stress job on the planet has to have a touch of craziness. Presidents are by their nature, narcissistic and egotistical, easily called out as not "normal" like the rest of us.
That aside, I do think the Chinese are correct in saying the opposition to Trump is beyond the borders of temperate politics, and it's entirely due to the left's craziness. It started with Watergate, when the left discovered that you really could run a president from the opposing party out of office. While Watergate had rational grounds for impeachment, they've been testing the waters to see how far they could take public opinion into the realm of irrationality.
Reagan was attacked without legitimate grounds, but his calm, sensible demeanor made it obvious how unhinged the opposition critics were. The first President Bush avoided much serious criticism, primarily because of the successful outcome of the Gulf war. His son was not so lucky, even though he was initially praised for his post-9/11 actions. "Bush Derangement Syndrome" (BDS) followed, with critics seeking revenge for the Clinton impeachment.
Finally, we come to President Trump, the "reality" TV president, who could be criticized on rational grounds for his grandiose demeanor and exaggerated statements. Learning from their BDS experience that even illogical criticism couldn't hound a president from office (especially one with the huge ego of Donald Trump), the left's opposition deteriorated into criminal conspiracy, with the infection spreading into the active government agencies. Hopefully the republic can enact a course correction before it deteriorates into incurable corruption.
Democracy has always been a poor form of government and is not good enough for America.
Communism is, in many ways, worse.
Of course, China criticizes Trump. He is the formidable adversary that they'd love to be rid of so they can deal with statists who are easier to corrupt and who feel socialism is better to concentrate more power in the hands of the state.
- James Madison, The Federalist No. 55
It is becoming evident that sufficient virtue is now lacking in those chosen by the two parties to run for national office, and those chosen and appointed to federal courts, federal departments, and executive cabinet positions. In such a system, the people are not represented; the republic is broken.
I do wonder why the dems can question Trump's sanity, when they have NEVER mentioned Hillary's past hospitalization for uncontrolled manic behavior. She exhibited some such behavior while on the campaign trail as well. Funny, how they can overlook so much in other libs. It is like when they called Bush Jr. dumb, then turned around and elected a guy with an IQ of about 117, which is below that of Bush! China killed its citizens for protesting, which to me sounds like insanity. I have read Mao's Little Red Book multiple times, and insanity is when intennatin business people came up with TQM, which is filled with Mao's methods. Can one call the screaming Judd broad sane? How about Madonna's goofy rant, oh, she never was normal, just depraved. Tump looks like a pillar of sanity when ones looks at the Libs in general.
Actually, back in the 90s, I was talking with my brother, a Major in the USAF, about creeping TQM, which I saw promoting collectivism and employing at times, the Delphi Technique. It was very big in industry here, was creeping into the school system, and medicine. At the same time, university business schools were pulling away, and advising an approach which was more one of reacting to the unexpected, than endless meeting to plan ideas. My brother, sent me Mao's Little Red Book, with a note to read it through ,as it was absolutely similar. I had read a good many books on Mao before, but read that as well.Mao was influenced by the thinking of Rousseau (1700s), which many educators were also.
"Strategic Plans" are mentioned in "China's Revolutionary War" (1936). "Five Year Plans" are mentioned in "Running a Co-operativeDilligently and Frugally" (1955). TQM methods are mentioned in Mao's "Democratic Movement in the Army" 1948. In other texts, he calles for engaging the "rank and file" in planning, and calls fro eegular meetings.
Once TQM entered the schools the call for ever earlier early childhood education followed, by government, as parents were not to be trusted to rear their children.Across the US, school meetings were held with administrators and parents, to create "strategic plans", usually employing the Delphi Technique, to get the predetermined outcome.
I would suspect TQM in the military, where planning is necessary, would not be as easily manipulated, as among the general public. I do remember even Mao read much on our George Washington, viewing him as a great general. Even today, they sailors in China read Mahan's classic story on the importance of sea power on history. JFK valued that text, but not much in the following presidents.
We have a creeping collectivism in the USA, and it is due to too many educators (an oxymoron) and tunnel vision CEOS, who want to grab at the shiny new techniques, never knwing the world has been there before, and lost freedoms.
I I saw TQM in action in industry, as part of the publishing company where i worked in editorial, which l was exempt. However, we could hear the BS sessions advertising was put through, the childish cheering and the, lying to advertisers about circulation, and ending with pizza! The person who filled the supplies in the snack room felt she was part of management, because she was on the team buying into the whole thing. Advertising dropped. Then while sitting on the school planning team, I knew the brainwashing, including Maslow group therapy led by a teacher, in the classroom, that was going on. I knew that some of the administrators said they did not care what parents wanted, they knew best. It was early childhood push to start the indoctrination earlier. Capitalism was taught as bad, socialism great, and parents kept in the dark. That whole process started when industry spread their TQM into schools. Those of us on the team who came from the community had handlers from the administration, and thus the Delphi Technique was put in place with us. Several of us had studied it and knew how it worked, so we were ready. But once we were done, the school continued on their predetermined course, and today has an F rating with the state.
My brother and I feel it is no coincidence that Mao used the same terminology for so many of the processes in industry and education TQM. When the idea is to make people feel they are part of the planning, but are actually manipulated into accepting a predetermined outcome, that is definitely the basis of communism. As in Orwell, Bad was good, history was rewritten, etc.
It is subtle to the general public, and thus all the more dangerous. Quslaity in work must be maintained, the product must be good, but the worker must be realistic. Spending hours in rah rah sessions and feeling they are the best, is not working harder and actually doing their best. This country, including the military when my brother retired, was moving ever more toward socialism or communism. No one questioned when commie card-carrying Gorby put green agenda in our schools, at the expense of real science, it all just happens too easily, and the communist have long said they would destroy us from within. College professors, including those teaching business and education, are enthralled with communism, from Mao to to third world dictators. We have to be alert to it. Today, the UN has vowed to end capitalism, as part of Agenda 21/2030.
I worked in the corp. accountting office of a multinational firm for nine years. My boss became the Treasurer, his first act, after he and I converted the whoel system to computer, was to reduce the corp. acctg. dept. from six women to three, and to do away with a supervisor. He picked employees who worked on their own, were responsible, and did not run to him with every issue. I remember his saying that we reported to him, but he did not ant to hear from us, as we knew what he expected. The dept. worked very efficiently. I did acct. receivable cash receipts, sales taxes, GL journal entries, data input for other divisions, reconciled asset accounts, and did collections. The three girls did more jobs than the six had done, taking on some of the formerly Treasurer's duties. Each of us had a background where responsibility had been stressed The only meetings we ever had was with IT to consult about additional reports we wanted or updates we needed. I did meet with service and sales, when a customer had an issue with a machine which was holding up payment, to make sure it was being addressed timely. The girl doing payables was the daughter of the owner of another Machine Tool company in town, but she wanted to do it one her own. She understood the business and was an employee anyone would want. When the third lady got appendicitis, and was off for weeks, our boss asked if we two could fill the gap, as he did not want to hire a part time person - and it was done.The machine kept running.That is what can happen when employees understand capitalism and embrace it, and work as individuals withing a loose team, where the results are the goal.
I am six to death of the Marxist and there is no "I" in team crap they feed students today. Our daughter read "Antem' at 9 years, and is now a COO of a multimillion dollar corp., whose growth she took personally. Planning is good, but it is not everything, and it hides some level of incompetence when team members are credited as a group.
the Progressive left has no patience with decent.
I personally don't think the American people will fall ofr all the MSM crap being spewed out but it only takes a significan minority to make change in a country where the press does not report the truth about thinks and people.
To quote a very old Mormon saying "Vigilance !!!"
What next? Will Gloria Allred trot out guys who say Trump abused them?
Hey, has Trump being a space alien been used yet?
China? Who cares what foreign commies think?
We already have Bolshevik Bernie, Nutty Nancy, put up with a ruinous Obamanation for 8 years and many more of those here already.