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Friday, September 11, 2009

Let's Hear It for One-Party Autocracy

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.
Who wrote that? Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Is any comment necessary? Possible?

3 comments:

Lucy Stag said...

WHAT.

That man has the memory of a goldfish, the good taste of a dog rooting through garbage, and the rationality of a flea.

But you're right, there are no words.

Anonymous said...

Wrong attitude the most functional society is often one just as the brilliant Mr. Friedman has described...quit being lunatic anarchists

Joe Ermigiotti said...

Well, this is after all the man who wrote a book called "The World is Flat."