New World discovered!

News flash: Neo-cons have landed in mainland China.

First reports say the neo-cons did not bring blankets and trinkets for the natives but bought some really cheap right there.

Yesterday, we tried to demolish some strange arguments in our post Democracy is OUT.  In the process, we realized that the European media may have missed something very important:

American neo-cons love China.

Having recovered from our standard reaction to everything (which is side-splitting laughter), we wanted to know why the neo-cons, who hate commies, would fall in love with China. We came up with two answers.

1) The Chinese are politically non-threatening commies
The Soviets threatened to destroy capitalism and the world. Cuba, to this day, is seen by many as the communist cucaracha near the US kitchen sink -- a cucaracha that needs to be crushed.

Sure, there was a little US-Chinese mano a mano in Korea a while back. But the Chinese commies were never in the Ideology Export business. Exporting Barbie dolls, yes, exporting communism, no. And Tibet and the lama, whatever, aren't lamas South American anyway?

Sure, there is unease in the US about Chinese hackers and the fact that China holds a bunch of the American debt. But this is more a domestic US plaything that comes in handy when some more fear is needed, when there is a lull in the grand battle to get rid of Social Security, to destroy public education, etc.

While the tea party foot soldiers fight the good fight, the neo-con intellectuals are looking toward the future.


2) The allure of a capitalist non-democratic system that works
The US Democrats, even when they start wars, have this little thing in their heads, where they would like to do good and shake hands.

The neo and the old cons have shown a fondness for anti-democratic capitalist governments, just look in South America or the authoritarian Asian tiger cubs.

The problem with these was: most were tiny, fashist, or family run countries. The fashist South American countries, the family run Philippines, they just collapsed.

They tried Russia, but it was not good enough, not productive, a chaotic mob free for all. Europe is not good enough for them either, not enough unfettered capitalism, too much human rights babble.

The neo-cons needed an American-sized non democratic political system with capitalist economics, and that is what they see in China.

China is it.

Look at the former end of history man:
But Fukuyama also made a point about the comparative inability of the U.S. system to respond decisively to a long-term crisis. "China adapts quickly, making difficult decisions and implementing them effectively," Fukuyama wrote. "Americans pride themselves on constitutional checks and balances, based on a political culture that distrusts centralised government. This system has ensured individual liberty and a vibrant private sector, but it has now become polarised and ideologically rigid. At present it shows little appetite for dealing with the long-term fiscal challenges the U.S. faces. Democracy in America may have an inherent legitimacy that the Chinese system lacks, but it will not be much of a model to anyone if the government is divided against itself and cannot govern."

Sounds wonderful doesn't it?
No word on how the neo-cons have bled the country dry, have blocked all these infrastructure projects they applaud in China. The neo-cons have two big fundamental problems: America is the country of the unruly, the ungovernable - many of the folks who came to the US fled some sort of "do as we say" country.
And then they wrote up a constitution that is pretty hard to undermine.

But fear not, the neo-cons are working on their concept of a government that can "ride roughshot" over people for the sake of a greater good.

The foot soldiers are allowed to bitch about gay marriage while the brains are busy exploiting the "big threats" of terrorism, the war on drugs, the financial woes they themselves created, plus their close study of the Chinese model to move the pesky United States towards the rule of the enlightened elite that should rightfully run the country.

All of this is coming to a European country near you soon, too, yes, you Brits, I'm talking to you.