I was asking myself, why would I want to spend 65 min of my time on this clip, the Ezra Klein show? The title is enticing, something in the same line as what I have been posting. Eventually I did sat through the whole video to understand the thinking of Trump's supporters and their version of truth, and what they were trying to do to bring down China. The whole discussion turned out to be a tutorial lesson when a student thought he was clever enough to take on his supervisor, a world renowned economist, Tom Friedman, to want to change the thinking of Friedman.
The intent of this production was serious. It was a setup to try to convince Tom Friedman that he was wrong and Clown Trump was right in what he was doing. Ezra Klein, a Jew by name, stood out as a typical brain dead hillbilly with a set of assumptions and premises, China is bad, China is collapsing, everything China did was wrong, China is expansionist, wanting to take over the world, Chinese are stupid, no talent, cannot innovate and are behind the Americans in science and technology. China's progress is all about copying and stealing technology from the Americans. Friedman said, bullshit.
Klein's introductory clips on the far right extremist American views, including the comments of drag queen Vance, were not put up innocently. That was what he painted of China and wanted his viewers to see China in that light.
Tom Friedman was no pushover. He knew exactly what was the agenda and motive of Klein. He gave him a good lecture on the realities in China and how advance China is, how well organised and competitive the Chinese have become in the new industries. His suggestion was for America to cooperate with China to go forward. At one point he was so exasperated and used the four letter word on what Trump was doing. Trump sneered the EV industry as a sissy industry and wanted to promote manly jobs like combustion engine automobile workers and coal miners, jobs that are befitting for the illiterate hillbillies. Another good traditional jobs for the macho Americans would be cowboys chasing after herds of cows.
Klein stood his ground, that the only way to tackle China was to bring down China, and everything Trump was doing is a great plan and the only plan to succeed. Cannot compete with China, bring down China.
If you have the time, I will not want to waste a second listening to this Klein. But with Tom Friedman and the content, and what Friedman said, it was worth the time to have an insight into the dated minds of hillbillies.
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