I’m going to continue writing about the saga that is China, which I have written about many times before. It’s relevant because China is America’s number one antagonist in the world today, our greatest opponent, and we need to understand what is happening there. It is also pertinent because many of the things going on in China can be seen in our government and country. And I have to start out by saying, Thank God for our Founding Fathers who wrote a Constitution that still gives some protection to the American people. Those protections are being increasingly eroded by the Leftist, power-craving Democratic Party, which mindlessly hates the Constitution and wants to eliminate it, but it still exists, and they struggle to get around it. China doesn’t have that kind of protection for its people, and they are cursed because of it.
This article is being written based upon two communications I had yesterday with former students of mine in China. I mentioned one of them in an earlier column. He had a job, his company didn’t pay him his monthly salary, then only paid him half of it, and promised to pay the rest in a few days. They never did, so he told me last night that he had quit that job and found another one. I wish him well. I’ll talk to him more soon.
The stupidity of some Chinese employers is staggering. They think they will save money by not paying their employees and that the employee will just accept it because, well, there is nothing that can be done. China (with its great Marxist, “worker’s paradise”) supposedly has labor laws to protect those workers, but as this former student recently told me, “the government doesn’t do sh*t about these companies” who exploit their employees. I know that from personal experience, because I sued a former employer of mine, with overwhelming evidence of his guilt. The judge decided totally in his favor. Why have labor laws if they aren’t going to be enforced?
But that student/employee was a skilled worker—a cameraman. You don’t find those kinds of people walking around on the street. The employer might have saved a little money by not paying him the full salary owed, but now, the employee quit, and the company will have to hire, and train, another worker. That will cost them a lot more money than they stole from the employee. Same with me. The employer who was stealing from me, and who I eventually sued, lost countless thousands of yuan because I quit. What little he gained from stealing from me was overwhelmingly lost by my resignation. And I heard he never was able to replace me. This isn’t good business, to say the least.
One problem, of course, is the government-run, socialist system of China. The people are not raised learning capitalist, market-oriented business principles and sound economic laws, thus so many of them really do not know how to run a business. They can’t see ahead; they see only the here-and-now of theft. As I have mentioned before, the biggest fight I had, as a teacher in China, was with the constant cheating and lying of the Chinese students. They are pressured so much to succeed, that anything goes, including cheating and lying. There is no God in China, so no moral absolutes. You do what you can get away with—lying, cheating, stealing—that is the system they grow up with, and many of them, especially if they become business or government leaders, put them into practice when they have the opportunity. And the “slaves” suffer for it.
I also heard from a second former student last night. She recently finished her Master’s degree in Australia and located a job in China about two months ago. She contacted me and told me she hadn’t been paid yet. Same thing. Boss keeping the money, lying about the situation, exploiting the labor of his employee, which is nothing more than theft, of course. So, just yesterday I received these two examples of the corruption, lying, cheating, and theft that is so deeply rooted in the rotten country called China. t’s endemic to their system, to any socialist, totalitarian system.
As a historian, this also intrigues me. How long can a country survive by being built on lying, cheating, and corruption? I don’t know the answer to that, there is no way to know. There have been other such systems in history, and they eventually collapsed. China will, too, but I can’t guess when that will be.
This is further relevant because of what is happening in America. Washington, D.C., is thoroughly corrupt now, the “Swamp,” every bit as dishonest as Beijing. There are no bigger liars in the nation than Joe Biden and politicians, on both sides of the aisle (well, their media, too). This is exactly what power does to weak people who should never have it; power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is clearly happening in America.
Again, thanks to our brilliant Founding Fathers, we, the people, do still have some protections in our Constitution that the Chinese people do not have. But the Democratic Party is working overtime to destroy that Constitution and give us as corrupt a totalitarian government as China has. And since there is no morality in the Democratic Party, either, save whatever satisfies their insatiable lust for control, if they succeed in utterly revoking our Constitution, America will be totally finished, a mirror image of China. We don’t’ want that, folks. I can tell you that from personal experience, and I’ve tried to relate, in my articles what is happening to the people in China. It will happen in America if the Democrats get the power that they want.
How long can such a system last? I can’t fathom a guess. I can only tell you that we don’t want it.
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