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    DD is at the older end of the millennial age group. Among she and her highly educated peers, some things seem to be more important - equality in all its forms, environmentalism, entrepreneurship vs corporate and other liberal/moderate ideas. I suppose if there were enough of them who became politically active, things might swing differently. But there are also probably more aimless, uneducated young people who have nothing to contribute and probably won't vote either way. And a whole bunch of old white men who don't want change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Williamsmith View Post
    Trumps trade war with China may turn into a referendum on “socialist market economy” vs the “free market” economy. I’m not sure Americans are prepared for the increase in cost of goods or complete unavailability. The masses are too used to walking into WalMart and buying cheap consumer products from China or browsing Amazon offerings. Some say Trump might just might tank the economy and burst his own bubble.

    Maybe that’s what you get when you put a person in charge of the worlds largest economy who has a history of using bankruptcy as a wealth preservation tool.
    We don’t want to lose our access to cheap communists slave labor, do we.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmc View Post
    We don’t want to lose our access to cheap communists slave labor, do we.
    Someone queue up the communist apologetics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ultralight View Post
    Someone queue up the communist apologetics!
    Real communism has never been tried. Those guys who killed a hundred million people last century were cheap knockoffs of the genuine brand. Anyone who says otherwise is just a greedy racist.

    Someone needs to chain up unfettered capitalism in the attic so it doesn’t get loose and run with scissors. And who’s better at chaining people up than communists?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Real communism has never been tried. Those guys who killed a hundred million people last century were cheap knockoffs of the genuine brand. Anyone who says otherwise is just a greedy racist.

    Someone needs to chain up unfettered capitalism in the attic so it doesn’t get loose and run with scissors.
    Thank you, comrade!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Real communism has never been tried. Those guys who killed a hundred million people last century were cheap knockoffs of the genuine brand. Anyone who says otherwise is just a greedy racist.

    Someone needs to chain up unfettered capitalism in the attic so it doesn’t get loose and run with scissors. And who’s better at chaining people up than communists?
    So the Chinese are socialist communist? Or democratic communist? I’m not up on the latest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmc View Post
    So the Chinese are socialist communist? Or democratic communist? I’m not up on the latest.
    Like most mature communist polities, the best analogy would be to feudalism. A relatively small number of families control the military and economic assets while a larger body of serfs are controlled using brutal methods. There is also a strong tendency to territorial aggression.

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    Sounds like capitalism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    A relatively small number of families control the military and economic assets while a larger body of serfs are controlled using brutal methods. There is also a strong tendency to territorial aggression.
    Why does this sound so familiar...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nswef View Post
    Sounds like capitalism.
    Yes. Life in New Jersey is nearly indistinguishable from that in Novosibirsk.

    Here’s a hint on how to spot one subtle difference. Move to China and try to post about Mr Xi similar to the way you post about Mr Trump.

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