The Left's love affair with China

President Obama said he wished he could run the United States the way that Chinese dictators run China.  Most people assumed he didn't mean that he'd like to run over protestors with tanks the way the Chinese rulers did a Tiananmen Square 30 years ago.

The left in general seems to have deliberately chosen to ignore not only the fact that the Chinese government killed thousands of students for the crime of wanting to be free the left also ignores the fact that that same government murdered tens of millions of women to be through its one child policy.

"Pro-choice" leftists had no real problem with China's coercive abortion policy which forced women who already had a child to abort any subsequent children.  The left had no problem with the fact that because in China boys take care of their parents when they are old unborn girls were killed far more often than unborn boys.

In most societies about half the babies are boys and half are girls. In China there were 120 boys born for every 100 girls born.  Even worse infanticide may have been common.  In most societies 100 girls die in their first year of life compared to 120 to 130 boys.  Yet in China 80 boys died for every 100 girls.

Yet our "feminist" Democrats and leftists never raised their voices in condemnation of either forced abortions or the targeting of women for execution by the Chinese leadership.

On a less horrifying note the left and Democrats in general are attacking Trump for his raising tariffs against China.  They are ignoring the fact that for decades China has been waging a trade war on the US and stealing American jobs and intellectual property.  Prior to Trump being elected Chinese tariffs were more than 3 times higher on US good entering China than US tariffs on Chinese good entering America.

Like the Crusades that the left mislabels as wars of imperialism but which were in fact wars to regain Christian lands that Muslims had conquered with the sword the left is calling Trump's defending America against China's economic attack a war of aggression.

The one glaring exception to this is the move by Democrats like Ilhan Omar to condemn the Chinese putting over 1,000,000 Muslims into concentration camps.  Given a similar lack of concern about Christians who have been and are also being persecuted in China this probably reflects the Democrats love of Islam more than any rejection of the Chinese model of government.

The reality is that modern Democrat politicians do in fact like the Chinese model where the politicians rule, not represent, the people.

That's why we can't ever let them get power lest our children or our children's children end up having to die to regain the freedoms that Democrats want to steal from us.