American Grocery Stores and the USSR

I borrowed this piece from Joe For America.

As documented in a biography about Boris Yeltsin that was written by Leon Aron in 2000, the difference between capitalism and communism/socialism became painfully clear. Here's some limited details of a 1989 stop at a Randall's Grocery store in Houston, Texas by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union member, Boris Yeltsin that changed the USSR for good.

If Boris Yeltsin, a one time devout communist could recognized the difference between socialism, communism and capitalism from one visit to a typical grocery store in the United States then why can't the rest of us?!

Our card carrying, chest thumping, die in the wool American communists and socialists have absolutely no idea what they're asking for, what they're demanding. They want their cake and they want to eat it too. You can't have both. As the article linked to above suggests, Boris Yeltsin saw the difference up front and personal and returned to his Soviet Union to effect changes that would positively affect everyone. Or so he hoped.

And they did. That one visit to that one Texas store in 1989 changed the world forever.

IMHO

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Is China Ready To Lead?!

With the European Union in disarray, Brazil falling off of their short lived global plate re: production and economy, India being (once again... or should I say "still") pre-occupied regarding their seemingly never ending quarrel with Pakistan it appears China's got a somewhat free pass to take a shot at increasing their global leadership if they want it.

At least that's my take from reading the article I linked to above.

China's poised to take on a more robust global leadership role in manufacturing, economy and trade and quite frankly we're seemingly encouraging it to happen. While we're so busy quarreling within about what tweet is appropriate or not, whether the NFL should kneel during our national anthem, whose lives matter more than others, our open borders, Clinton's travesties, etc., the liberal "hate America" agenda, global conquest and other things of the sort we're letting our what's left of our global influence fall to the wayside.

And China's poised to take advantage of our internal quarreling. Why wouldn't they? We would... hell, we have.

I'm thinking I'm witnessing a crumbling of our values, of our global influence. Every "empire", every dog eventually has its day and then it's all downhill from there.

Are we there yet? Because we're certainly not poised to lead or at least it doesn't appear to ME that we are poised to lead. Nah, from what I'm seeing we've become a distraction to many, a reduced influence globally and a liability to some. Our infighting is fraying our unity and the whole world's watching, noticing.

That given, why WOULDN'T other nations start posturing and start testing the global markets, the competition at least? It makes sense to me... I don't like it but it makes sense.

Life goes on.

IMHO