Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "China Starts Huge Civil Servant Layoffs: 100,000 Face Job Loss in This Province" video.

  1. Read up on China under the KMT. They were no different. At some point you just have to accept that they are the way they are because of their culture. No agreed upon morals and values coupled with egotistical leaders propped up by a submissive populace was and is always how China has operated. Everyone is just trying to survive to the exclusion of everything else.
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  2. There were better ones? Lol. You know under the KMT, the Chinese people made no distinction between, the military, the police and local gangs right? They all abused the people all the same. It also not unheard of for China to be ruled by tyrannical emperors. Abuse and ego run amok has always ruled China and was always responsible for their suffering. Xi is nothing unique and he won't be the last abuser unless the Chinese people change their tolerance for bad rulers like people did in the West. "Thus it is practically certain that the masses cannot be aroused from this apathy to any assertion of resentment against their oppressors. We find that the average Chinese have little or no conception of fundamental rights, according to the theory developed in the West during the seventeenth century and expressed in mass movements in the eighteenth-the theory that every individual is entitled by the fact of birth certain privileges, to restrict which is unlawful tyranny in another. The Chinese masses look upon what we should call justice, if they get it, more as something fortunate than as something to which they are entitled. Oppressions, conversely are more misfortunes than injustices. Being looted is about like suffering from a hurricane or other force of nature. So here, among the masses, we have the inertness of ignorance. Among the educated, the great majority of them, we have the inertness of indifference, each looking out for himself, but unconcerned with the whole. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China)
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