Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Is Trump winning the trade war with China?" video.
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Our trade "partners" haven't been very straight-up with us, for a long time. Other countries carve out a niche to subsidize and protect with tariffs. This product. That product. Until the USA is importing everything and making nothing. I get wanting the 3rd World to join the 1st, and some tolerance is called for, here and there, to get a country on its feet. Maybe it starts with something simple like high-quality pool cues, made with home-made lathes in back yards...
The Chinese are autocrats. Command economy. No respect for the rules of commerce. If they wish to COMPETE with us, they will eventually have to give up on the command economy nonsense. It's not productive of self-sustaining systems. They can't compete with us if their people aren't on par with our people. And the minute their people are on par with ours, they start getting unruly. You see it happen all the time throughout history. Using force on people is not competitive in the long run.
Use of force always leads to counter-forces down the road, in very predictable (and unsavory) ways. That's why political correctness is shredding the Democratic Party, right now. They found a way to re-brand intolerance as "I'm offended" and obliterated everyone in their path, but their own logic has turned that engine of destruction back on them. It reminds me of the Emo Williams's "'Baptists' routine."
There are now some "blue-dog" Democrats in the house, who are moderate-to-conservative on immigration and some who are moderate-to-conservative on the 2nd Amendment. Project Veritas claims many of those Democrats were just posturing to get elected, but will vote as a bloc for every scrap of 2nd-Amendment restriction they can bring to the floor. And Democrat-run committees WILL bring those bills to the floor.
I think majority-black precincts, in particular, are no longer a done deal for open-borders Democrats. And if they VOTE open borders, the black vote could split off in favor of the Republican (with the better-read individuals maybe going for the Libertarian), especially in communities hardest-hit by immigrants, and ESPECIALLY in Sanctuary-City communities. And when I say better-read, it's because with the Internet, I see a LOT of people getting REALLY smart, in very short time, by just surfing for knowledge. If you apply yourself, you can learn as fast as you can absorb, and that tends to be about 10,000% faster than waiting for your school teacher to mention it.
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And the Chinese should pay a HEAVY price for their blatant theft of intellectual property and strong-arm tactics. Given the way things are, you couldn't shut them down, instantly, but I'd put 'em on a timetable to clean up their act, and prepare to get along withOUT their business on that same timetable. What they do is unacceptable. They should also pay a premium, at the LEAST for their dirty industries. The way things are, now, we're buying their cheap stuff and thinking "What a great deal!" but that great deal comes at the cost of the air we breathe and the water and the plant and animal life.
Don't get me wrong. If I were in charge, I still might blink if I saw that my noble intentions were hurting the most vulnerable of the people. That cheap-ass $25 Chinese jacket kept that poor kid warm for the whole winter, before the stuffing came out and the zipper broke. But by the time it wore out, he'd out-grown it and the weather was warming up. You can't forget those things. Or the cost of keeping an apartment warm or cool in winter. Go all noble on taxing energy and Grandma dies of heat exhaustion, because she got behind on her electric bill. The Democrat's answer is to find some way to spend somebody else's money to help Grandma. The conservative's answer is to create the conditions where everything is more affordable for everyone and 'most everyone is pretty prosperous, with plenty left over to help Grandma, out of individual kindness and compassion.
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