Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Read this - it will completely blow that argument out of the water.

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led
by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can
also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the
politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move
a society forward in the 21st century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/op...dman.html?_r=3

"Reasonably enlightened" - China.

WTF?


Snippets are so...bull****ty, eh, Doctor Tom?

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by
a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also
have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically
difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society
forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is
committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy
efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China’s leaders
understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising
emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy
efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns
that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including
boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.

"Our one-party democracy is worse. The fact is, on both the
energy/climate legislation and health care legislation, only the
Democrats are really playing. With a few notable exceptions, the
Republican Party is standing, arms folded and saying “no.” Many of them
just want President Obama to fail. Such a waste. Mr. Obama is not a
socialist; he’s a centrist. But if he’s forced to depend entirely on his
own party to pass legislation, he will be whipsawed by its different
factions."

Doctor Tom, ArmsFolded.




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