Don's Tuesday Column

                THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   10/12/2021

Hypocrisy, duplicity on China, Trump

Slave labor in China, often after subjecting victims to torture, produces solar panels using coal-fired power for processing. You would expect various groups to take fierce objection to some aspect of that reality:

1) Isn’t it economically counterproductive for solar panels made in China, rather than America, to be the centerpiece of what we are told is the existential fight against human-caused global warming? 2) Surely, the purists in that fight wouldn’t conscience relying on “dirty” coal power for our solar power, would they? 3) With our heightened awareness, and justifiable condemnation, of slavery in America’s distant past, how can slavery in China not draw the ire of the “racial justice” crowd?

4) While many on the left have no sympathy for religion or the faithful, they seem accepting of Islam. Isn’t it bothersome that China openly persecutes and tortures Uyghur Muslims for their beliefs, on the virtual railroad boxcar trip to one of a hundred internment camps, called “vocational training centers”?

“Graduates” of said camps become workers making America’s solar panels, using coal-fired electricity; the entire process doesn’t disturb our “enlightened” elites. Is it just, as Vladimir Lenin said, breaking eggs to make an omelet? Can our progressive thought-leaders really believe in China’s moral and “Communist” economic superiority? Admiration oozes from their writings and words.

We know the above from, among other sources, a former Chinese policeman (“Jiang”) living in exile in Europe, whose story, observations and experiences were included in a telegraph.co.uk/world-news article (10/05). Among “150,000 police recruits staffing detention centres in Xinjiang…he was quickly disillusioned by abuse carried out against detainees as young as 14,” describing the torture in terms not suitable for this paper.

“One of the strangest phenomena of our time is the whitewashing of the Chinese Communist Party by American liberals. Fifty years ago, everyone knew that the CCP was vicious, cruel and evil. But over the years, economic self-interest–the desire to take advantage of what is at best low-wage labor, and at worst slave labor–has triumphed over moral judgment.” From “The Chinese Communists are Evil,” powerlineblog.com, 10/09. Name any U.S. leader aside from President Donald J. Trump that seriously tried to rein in China’s inexorable march to dominance of the world and our own dear nation.

Things China-related sort Americans onto sides, either accepting reality or not. Likewise, Donald Trump sorts Americans into polarized camps—from his sharp-tongued and -tweeted campaign to his impeachment-bedeviled presidency to his reelection loss (in a contest rigged against him in multiple ways, absent which he would have won in a landslide). This writer is anti-China, pro-Trump, and loves every minute of a Trump rally.

Set the dubious election results aside—the Arizona audit not only revealed illegally-handled, mistakenly-processed, fraud-inducing ballots equaling five times Joe Biden’s 10,500-vote “win,” but also county officials admitting, in congressional testimony, to erasing legally subpoenaed election records essential to the audit.

Up to 20 percent of polled Democrats affirmed that—had they been informed of the corruption revealed in the (now proven real, not Russian disinformation) Hunter Biden laptop emails—they would not have voted for China-phile, doddering, basement-dwelling Joe Biden. Moreover, if Trump received the flattering treatment over COVID now given Biden, instead of thoroughly dishonest blame, he’d have won.

An objective view of the 4-year long political campaign, “jihad” even, against Trump finds no true substance to it. Surprising no one on Trump’s side, the 26-page indictment of Clinton-DNC lawyer Michael Sussman reveals the total fabrication of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative—from Hillary Clinton’s desire to distract from her “server” scandal, to the DNC, Perkins Coie law firm, Fusion GPS, British spy Christopher Steele, James Comey, the Mueller investigation, and the Adam Schiff-show impeachment. All dastardly lies.

Remove that—and the phony scandal over Trump’s unremarkable call to Ukraine’s president—from his 4-year term and you’d have seen Trump handily reelected. Beyond the utter hoax that was the Russian collusion story, the news media proved to all but the jaded, political left that journalism on a national level has morphed into little more than the P.R. arm of the Democrat Party, “useful idiots” advancing a “Marxist” America.

The paramount lesson and purpose of the above is to induce indelible skepticism of what those same sources of news, analysis and opinion, as well as progressive cultural advocates, now affirm with utmost certainty about President-ish Joe Biden, vaccine and mask mandates, and the weaknesses of Biden’s economy. Five trillion in new spending is designed to “transform” America, not rebuild it.

Micro-monitoring $600 bank transactions is fallaciously described as “recovering hidden income” of the rich. “Do you distrust the American people so much that you need to know when they bought a couch? Or a cow?” asked Sen. Cynthia Lumis of Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. More economic activity will go “off the books.”

Jimmy Carter’s policy-created “stag-flation” and observed “malaise” will arise like a TV rerun as the same ideology and political party drives proven-failed massive government spending, economy-strangling regulation and Wuhan flu-inspired controls. The unlimited immigration, expanded welfare redistribution, and so-called “green energy” subsidies designed to combat the vanishing “global warming” crisis—are all fed to lying mouthpieces in the media-academic-political classes as if they either cost “zero” or only “the rich” will pay. Lies.

What kind of government wants access—with thinly veiled and historically malign treatment of political foes (i.e. IRS persecution of the Tea Party)—to so many citizens’ financial records. It brings the ability to selectively haul those of the government’s choosing before tribunals where they’ll be “guilty until proven innocent”? We on the right know, and those on the left should suspect, it’s despotism by any name.