Aaron was suddenly speechless. I prodded, "Do you envision this revolution happening in ten years?"
"No, that's too soon."
"Fifty?"
"Before then."
"Do you see the US as staying in one piece?"
"I support self-determination for everyone, including the first nations. If the Navajos want to establish their own country, I'll back that."
"But how will you break up, say, Tucson, Arizona?" I half grinned, as did Theo.
Aaron, "If the people of the Southwest want to form their own country, join Mexico or stay within the US, I will support it, as long as it's done democratically."
Theo, "Hey, why don't you eat your food! You've been talking so much, you haven't even touched your sandwich!"
Way overpopulated, China has been exporting people and importing jobs for decades, while the US did the exact opposite. Chinese immigrants send money home and open new markets for Chinese goods, so it's great, from China's perspective, that Chinese are flooding into the Russian Far East, Europe, North America and Africa, although many have decamped from the last for greener pastures. No traffic is going in the other direction, mind you, for China has the lowest percentage of immigrants in the entire world.
It has been pointed out that China can accomplish much because it's not bogged down by bipartisan politics, unlike the US, but the real reason is that the Chinese leadership still has a nation first mentality. They're protective of Chinese identity and values, and feel, in a Confucian sense, that they can only justify their hold on power by doing what's best for the Chinese nation. They're nationalists, in short. Moreover, China doesn't send its sons to die for a foreign power and/or arms manufacturers, and the Chinese media don't mock and corrupt ordinary Chinese.
In the US, nationalism is reduced to waving the flag and mindless support for the troops, wherever they're sent, on whatever pretext. As for the college indoctrinated, nationalism is just a shameful concept. Within such a context, it's no wonder this nation is deformed, drugged and dying.
"No, that's too soon."
"Fifty?"
"Before then."
"I support self-determination for everyone, including the first nations. If the Navajos want to establish their own country, I'll back that."
"But how will you break up, say, Tucson, Arizona?" I half grinned, as did Theo.
Aaron, "If the people of the Southwest want to form their own country, join Mexico or stay within the US, I will support it, as long as it's done democratically."
Theo, "Hey, why don't you eat your food! You've been talking so much, you haven't even touched your sandwich!"
Way overpopulated, China has been exporting people and importing jobs for decades, while the US did the exact opposite. Chinese immigrants send money home and open new markets for Chinese goods, so it's great, from China's perspective, that Chinese are flooding into the Russian Far East, Europe, North America and Africa, although many have decamped from the last for greener pastures. No traffic is going in the other direction, mind you, for China has the lowest percentage of immigrants in the entire world.
It has been pointed out that China can accomplish much because it's not bogged down by bipartisan politics, unlike the US, but the real reason is that the Chinese leadership still has a nation first mentality. They're protective of Chinese identity and values, and feel, in a Confucian sense, that they can only justify their hold on power by doing what's best for the Chinese nation. They're nationalists, in short. Moreover, China doesn't send its sons to die for a foreign power and/or arms manufacturers, and the Chinese media don't mock and corrupt ordinary Chinese.
In the US, nationalism is reduced to waving the flag and mindless support for the troops, wherever they're sent, on whatever pretext. As for the college indoctrinated, nationalism is just a shameful concept. Within such a context, it's no wonder this nation is deformed, drugged and dying.
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