It took a year, but it seems reality is finally beginning to impinge upon Thomas Friedman, who, of all people, should have known better all along.
Beginning to impinge, I say, because there is one reality — the elephant, as they say, in the room — that he, and most of the academic and political leadership of the West, have yet to acknowledge. But Mecca wasn’t built in a day.
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That self-appointed spokesman for the self-righteous Left of that self-serving rag has the conceit to state in his pronouncement that, “I am ready to consider any ideas of how we in the West can help the forces of democracy and decency win.”
What an obnoxious prick. Who outside the Left gives a flying f*ck what he is “ready to consider”? Why doesn’t he just consider getting stuffed?
Ha! You’re a crotchety old SOB, Henry, but that made me laugh.
That’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me today!
It seems odd to hear Friedman use the phrase “Free-market democracy”, considering the praise he heaps on China:
“I’m worried about this, it’s why I have fantasized–don’t get me wrong–but that what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment.”
“… the right solutions … on everything from the economy to the environment.”
God help us.