How badly off course is the USA when the Chinese Communist Party’s essentially fascist dictatorship can credibly laugh and mock our failures like this?
The Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump governments have driven this country into the ground with their horrible foreign, economic and police state policies and made a mockery out of our slogans of freedom.
“The violent protests in the streets of urban America are further discrediting the U.S. in the eyes of ordinary Chinese,” said Susan Shirk, chair of the U.C. San Diego 21st Century China Center. “The propaganda depicts American politicians as hypocrites living in glass houses while throwing stones at China.”
Ms. Shirk said that as the reputation of the United States suffers in China, fewer people might be willing to voice support for American ideals, such as free markets and civil liberties.
“Even without the propaganda, Chinese people nowadays find little to admire in the U.S.,” she said. “As the U.S. model is tarnished, the voice of Chinese liberals is silenced.”
Great job remaking the world, guys.
The protest started off in downtown Pittsburgh, at Sixth and Liberty. When I got there, the march was just getting started, and the numbers were really substantial: in the thousands, for sure. The crowd was about what you would expect. A goodly number of African Americans of all ages, but skewing younger. Also present were a good number of white people, maybe half the crowd—also mostly millennials and younger. There were commies present, of course—scores, anyway, of crust punk, Antifa types. There was at least one red flag, and a guy handing out flyers on the necessity of socialist revolution. But needless to say, anarcho-communists were nowhere near the majority of marchers. There was an African American doing open-carry of an AR-15.
The march ended well East of where it had begun. To describe the area, Washington Place is a North South road which rises from a depression in front of the main entrance to the PPG arena North to meet Centre Avenue. Past the PPG arena on the west side of Washington Place is a business building that has the Mario Lemieux Foundation, among other things, and a parking deck with a railing that rises over the depression. On the East side of the street past PPG Arena is Epiphany Church. Washington Place rises to meet Centre Avenue, and the protest, after pausing in front of the main PPG Arena entrance on Washington Place, wound up the road and spread from PPG Arena onto Centre Avenue. Beyond Centre Avenue to the north is a vast open area of parking. The protest was pretty contained at this point. There is nothing much to the North of Centre Avenue at that intersection.
Crowds behave stupidly. As I was walking away an African American demonstrator with dreadlocks was yelling and pushing people away from the car: “Y’all know that’s gonna explode—get back, get back.” Thanks to his quick thinking and willingness to assert himself, the crowd wandered a safe distance away. By the time I got to the bridge on Centre after the intersection with Washington going West, small explosions started from the car. A police officer was standing at the intersection where the bridge starts—no riot gear, short sleeves—and no one was bothering him. I short time later, I noticed the riot cops were also on the scene, charging northward, uphill on Washington Place. I went back to my car and drove home.
