America and the Uphill battle

  Sometimes I think that the reason America is changing is because of China.  All the terrible things that Americans increasingly observe their government doing are just things that China has always done.  One fact is sure, the American empire is in decline and a vacuum has appeared which seeks to be filled by some other superpower, namely China.  This means that there is now a conflict between the people on the way out and the those on the way in.
   Why is it that Americans have been so silent about the gentle foreign policy between America and China.  If you want to see your country stand, in the future, for what it stood for in the past, demand that your government condemn China.  Demand reforms in China.  That would seriously address the problems in America at the root.
   One other thing to keep in mind is that, while America will have decreasing authority over China, internally, American corporations will increasingly side with and collude with China because that is where all the growth is (supposedly).  This means that the citizens of the United States are in a battle, not only with a maturing fascist state, but with their own corporations.
    You have a serious uphill battle.  Perhaps disintegration of the Union is inevitable, but something tells me that the values for which it stands mean a lot to those who live there.  So much so, that they may be willing to fight for them.
    One other thing to ponder is this.  Is the American government becoming more like China (insofar as it is increasingly infringing on human rights), because it wants to compete in this dog eat dog modern world?  Perhaps it is making this change because of a kind of silent colonization.  The citizens of America are accepting these changes and so goes the government to be more and more like that in China.  Those Americans crippled by debt are now, essentially, just like the 900 million peasant-slaves in China.
   Could one country really hijack the government of another?  Possibly, if the key players in the government are actually the CEOs of corporations which have no allegiance to the country at all and simply seek to maximize growth.  To me it seems just as reasonable that the Bush administration could be seen as making "difficult decisions to protect Americans" as they could be seen as transforming the country into a compliant province of the next super power, namely China.

  peace

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Pretty much everything >>2 mentioned is quite accurate. At least for those who live on the east coast of the U.S. There's really not much manufacturing being done in the United States as there was say, during the 1940's to the early 1960's. And by "manufacturing", I mean not just things simply be assembled from parts made elsewhere.

Tell me, when is the last time you actually saw on the back of a manufactured product that say, "Made in U.S.A."? I can only think of two items off the top of my head located in my home that bear that marking, a bunch of sauce cups from Friendly's restaurant and this computer chair I'm sitting on as I type this.

Granted, you can find nearly almost ANYTHING that bears "Made in U.S.A." on the back, but you have to of course, do some searching that basically REQUIRES use of the Internet these days. The common person will unlikely be able to purchase goods that were made in the U.S. And most wouldn't care enough to do so either.