The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle

I’m fond of saying that I’m allergic to conspiracy theories. Behind our country’s dismaying governance, cluelessness really rules, not plotting or scheming. Take, for example, these astounding remarks made Friday by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on NPR’s “Marketplace” show:

“As China grows — at the current rate it’s growing, in twenty or thirty years — and becomes the number one largest economy in the world, I think China may become our nemesis.”

     One would think that Mr. Reich is a pretty smart guy — former Rhodes Scholar (same class as Bill Clinton), Harvard faculty, cabinet secretary. Now, why on earth would Mr. Reich believe that China can possibly keep behaving the way it does for another two or three decades?

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