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America has evolved. China has changed. But the mainstream media reporting has not. This post discusses how both China and the United States have changed. We look at how they have migrated away from the form of government they were first established as. We look at how they both started, how they both changed, and where they both are today.

• For the United States, we study how it was first set up as a Constitutional Republic. We look at how it was changed through “progressive” alterations by President Wilson. We track the train of progressive change through FDR, to Clinton, and Obama. Finally, we follow the changes to the totalitarian police-state oligarchy America is today.
• For China, we study how it was set up as a Marxist utopia, and how it failed miserably. We look at who orchastrated the movement away from hard-line communism, and what they replaced it with. For, surprisingly, it was replaced by a single-party traditional Chinese-conservative government. We discuss how Mr. Deng brought this transformation through the implementation of Reganomics in the 1980’s.

Of course, we use facts and history to support this history. But, it’s not a popular history. It’s a stealth history.

The Stereotypes of China and America

The actual history lies hidden. We never see it behind the paid actors and actresses that pretend to be reporters. We never watch the actors pretending to be “experts” on televised discussion boards. We never see the entire picture, ever. All we see are actors reading scripted lines. Lines that are cultivated to evoke emotional reactions from us.

All we see is what is being “reported” to us.

That’s because the mainstream American media is a propaganda arm for others who desire Americans live in a “fake reality”. It’s a reality where Americans can be easily manipulated, emotionally tugged upon, and cajoled to perform the bidding of others.

Have you ever wondered why some people think the way that they do? I mean, why is it “common knowledge” that Trump followers are  “Deplorable” Nazi “Red-Necks” who are High School dropouts and  uneducated bumbletons?  Why is it “common knowledge” that Universities  and Colleges are the perfect routes for success in today’s’ modern  world? Why is it “common knowledge” that we need to pay income taxes or  else our bridges would collapse and our telephones would explode?

  
 The News Media told us. 

The following link opens up in a separate tab…

I argue that in order to have a peaceful life, you need to tune out and turn off that screaming, screeching noise-maker. You need to divorce yourself from the news. Oh, and yes this means all news. Most especially the news that YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. For that is the most dangerous manipulations. For they have successfully tapped into your emotional tug-points.

Because of all this manipulation, Americans have a distorted view of the world, and their place in it.

That is why many young people today feel that America is a horrible place, and needs to be replaced with a soft and kind socialist utopia. While, older Americans hold on to the belief that America is still the greatest nation in the world, and that it is full of “free” people living a life in liberty. Both points of view are framed upon the lies fed to them by the media.

With this there are two “camps” of belief;

• Conservative. America is still a free republic. Liberty, while under assault, still exists. Any problems that America has are short-lived, and as long as a Conservative representative is elected, everything will be fixed, and people will once again be left alone as the normal order of things.
• Progressive. America has problems because it is not progressive enough. It needs a strong leader to move to the “enlightened despotic” utopia. A utopia where the intellectually superior would tend to the rest of humanity much like a Shepard tends a flock of sheep. A Shepard sort of like a militarized Obama.

Let’s look at these two nations (USA and China) and two societies and compare them, shall we? Let’s start with America.

America Today

Liberty does not thrive when you must pee in a cup to get a job.

Here we are going to start with America. For simplicity, I have broken apart the various details into other posts. (All the statements made can be expanded upon in much greater detail by clicking on the links shown.)

How America was Changed.

How America was changed. It was changed purposefully. The America that we see today is what is the result of 100 years of progressive alteration in the hopes of achieving a utopia. Which is, on top of an earlier period of 100 years of evolution where those in government centralized power and control.

• Wilson started the path towards progressive implementation. He turned Americans into serfs, and put bankers in charge of America’s economy.
• FDR expanded upon it and had to rewrite and redefine the interpretation of key aspects of the Constitution. He pretty much started down the path to shredding the Bill of Rights.
• Clinton altered the Justice department. Implemented forceful elements of social change and started the balkanization of America.
• Obama radicalized all of the many agencies in Government. He armed them and made them a force to control the American people. He was the one who implemented the decisiveness and radical element of the progressive cause.

Freedom is never having to ask permission to eat, drink or do something with your own body.

This migration, the players who implemented this migration, as well as certain key changes to the American Constitution is covered in this link (it opens up in a separate tab);

Here is a little graph that I made about these changes, and no it is not precise. It is reflective of my own biases and not to scale. The horizontal axis represents time, the vertical axis represents the social-political organization of America.

Though, not completely accurate does not mean that it is nonsense. It does include the destruction of the tenth amendment during the civil war, and the progressive changes wrought on Americans by Wilson, FDR, Clinton and Obama.

Tracking the Changes that altered America.

Tracking how small changes made America what it is today. America has been under the assault of progressives, busy-bodies, fraudsters, and the evil for over two centuries. It's difficult to document and get the "big picture" without getting bogged down in the details.

Here we use a parable to show how well-meaning changes can severely alter what something is. It’s a fun parable. It is also directly applicable to America today. It also opens up in a separate link. And yes, that’s exactly what happened to America…

Ah… talking about the big picture…

The Big Picture

The Big Picture. Information overload. When dealing with a complex issue like two centuries of change in a large nation, such as America it becomes easy to get bogged down in the details and forget the big picture. Let's take a quick look at human nature, won't we?

But, again, now that you (the reader) can see the big picture, let’s get into some of the “nitty gritty”. First off, let’s look at the very first “showdown”. This was the American Civil War.

You see, back then the Federalists wanted a central government (like we have today), and those who read the constitution realized that the nation was founded on small government, locally governed. They used the issues of the day (which progressives want to politically realign to slavery) in order to battle with the big government folk. They fought and lost.

Today the elements of such a “showdown” are popping up here and there, and there are very close parallels to the American civil war. Let’s look at this…

The First Rupture

The first rupture. While the Constitution migrated away from a Republic in the first twenty years after ratification, the first signs that America did not represent it's people on a local level was evidenced by the first American Civil War. Here we look at this, and study how the exact same process is used contemporaneously to control American citizens.

Now, what is the nature of the people who want to discard liberty and freedom? What makes them tick, and why are they so “Hell bent” on changing things…

Who Changed America

Who changed it. We ask what the nature of people who want to implement change is, and look at specific examples. In this post we look at the personality aberrations that cause this kind of behaviors and why they despise the concept of liberty and freedom. Again, the link will open up in a separate tab for your reading clarity.

One of the problems that Americans have with this entire bout of change is that they are unable to categorize the absolute mind-blowing array of changes. And since they are unable to follow the entire wide breadth and scope of all the efforts that the progressives are doing, they fail to grasp the enormity of all the intent.

Yet, it need not be so complex.

• America changed from a Republic to a Democracy early on.
• Once a Democracy, evil and wealthy men used mob rule to get into positions of power.
• They centralized the power in Washington D.C..
• When the people revolted there was a Civil War and the powerful and wealthy won.
• But, that power was not enough.
• They wanted more. They wanted to live like Kings over serfs.
• Thus progressive politics was implemented.
• Subsequent Presidents expanded upon this and it changed society.
• America changed from a K-strategy majority rule to a r-strategy control center.

Here we talk about this.

How the changes affect society

Americans have become so accustomed to the progressive onslaught that they do not realize what the assaults on liberty are.

How the changes affect society. Here we look at how the changes in the government structure results in how people behave. This tracking and association of behavior with environment is well known and quite remarkable in it's consistency. What people are loathe to associate is how exactly it is following the American model.

To put it clearer…

The state doesn't get to put up a hoop - not any hoop - for anyone to  jump through before deciding their constitutional rights will be  granted. 

- Aesop at Raconteur Report 

The assault on Liberty

The Bill of Rights has been ignored. It’s not limited to the first and second amendments either. It’s everything. From “Red Light Cameras” that violate the 6th Amendment confrontation clause, to the 9th and 10th amendments. It’s all selective enforcement, and encroachment at will.

The Assault on Liberty. America has been dying a long slow death through million of tiny little cuts. Here we try to document just some of the many ways that America is being attacked. For each time you ban something, the government takes away a freedom. Freedom is the opposite of a ban. Here we look at this...

The cultivation of ignorance. In order to subjugate a people, you need to keep them ignorant, disarmed, drugged or otherwise helpless. There are many techniques, and many are being used on Americans today. Here we look at this aspect…

A looted America. Over the last 100 years, with the implementation of a progressive reality, America went from a nation of strong independence, to a dependent society that must ask permission from the government to function.

Since them, Americans have been treated as money-making machines, and fleeced over and over again.

Everything in the United States is monetized, taxed, regulated and utilized. The people are serfs serving the global ultra-wealthy. Here we study the American HST program as a perfect example of this…

Culture Wars. There is a fundamental clash between the very two disparate cultures in America.

One is the “nationalism” movement. They want [1] to be left alone, [2] a much smaller government, and [3] a return to the Constitution as written back in 1776.

The other is the “modern progressive” movement. It has elements that are desirous of [1] “enlightened despotism” and is [2] implementing Marxism to achieve their preferred utopia. It is a King and slave relationship.

Here we discuss this… “the culture wars”…

Hyper regulation of everything. In America you have expensive medical care, that if you track it back to it’s source, you will find that all the costs (in one way or the other) originated in various ways by government programs.

For instance, you have expensive cars that in one way or the other requires testing, and registration of all of the millions of components that make up the vehicle.

You have to ask an agency for permission to do anything. It wasn’t always this way.

It is this way because FDR scrapped out the SCOTUS who ruled that the 9th amendment will not permit the formation of any federal agencies. He did not like this. So he overhauled the SCOTUS and staffed it with closet Marxist wanna-bes. They then started ruling in favor of rolling waves of Marxism.

How Americans are controlled. Americans are the most manipulated, regulated, taxed and regulated people on the planet. Of course, many don’t think so.

They look at the shiny newness of their shackles and view that as a sign of freedom. Here we look at how Americans are manipulated and kept in a state of fear.

Some long over due changes. Here we discuss some of the key things that MUST be changed to have America move back to the Constitution as it was intended to be.

These are not a comprehensive list of items, it’s just some of the many, many problems that MUST be radically changed or else the United States will be no longer in the near future…

Personally, I would erase EVERYTHING, and start all over again, but with the Constitution as originally written. I would undo all the alterations, scrap the current crop of players, and start fresh and new.

I would put everything in the hands of the individual states. I would pull the federal government out of everything except the most limited and necessary functions.

I would defang every government entity, and then implement a fourth branch – the OVERSIGHT branch of corruption police constantly keeping the officials transparent and honest. This group would be very powerful and have it’s own court system, police, prisons, and torture rooms.

And yes, I would follow the Chinese model and implement torture for abuse by leadership. They will not be given a free pass. After all, if they want their own laws, they will have to have their own punishments as well.

But that is just me.

Today America is so far removed from what it once was that Americans have NO IDEA what freedom actually is. Hey! Wake up! These are CRITICAL characteristics of a FREE SOCIETY, how many exist in America today? Eh?

• No taxes on anything.
• No regulations except the most critical infrastructure.
• No agencies.
• Property means “YOURS.”
• Privacy is absolute.
• One set of laws that are applied equally.

In a free land, you can smoke and kill yourself with drugs and drink. No one will stop you.

In a free land, your property is yours, and no one can seize it, tax it, regulate it or claim it from you.

In a free land there are no laws against “vices” and no laws on behavior.

How different America is today from the founding? It is terribly different from what the Constitution was originally set up as.

In fact, aside from keeping the same names and titles, the nation resembles the exact opposite as what it was set up as. Here, we go Right by Right (in the Bill of Rights) and look at the tattered remains of what exists.

What America is today. Finally, we conclude with a study of what America actually is. We look at the organization, the history, the changes and the functional rearrangements that made America what it is. Then we come to conclusions as to what it functionally is.

Spoiler alert: It’s an oligarchy run by non-Americans.

Which pretty much explains this comment…

According to the experts, America is a country whose most fearsome enemy  is not only the majority of its people—the majority of its people are  also the nation’s biggest threat and its ultimate outsiders. 

-Jim Goad at Taki's Magazine

China

Lets look at China.

It’s common knowledge that China is communist. We know this, because the progressive American mainstream media has told us this. We know this because this was the case as recent as the 1980’s. We know this because Mr. Mao proudly committed to communist ideals back in the 1940’s. We know this because his picture is still on the Chinese currency.

And… and, we believe this is still the case, well because, we don’t know any better.

The failure of communism

However, that has all changed. You know, there have been many, many changes since Richard Nixon was in office. A lot has happened since the 1960’s. First, communist China collapsed in the 1970’s. (Though, it didn’t get the American media attention that it deserved. It’s almost like the American media were pining away for the success of communism.) Communist Cambodia collapsed shortly afterwards, followed by the collapse of the communist Soviet Union.

In the tail half of the last century, just about every communist nation imploded in upon itself. With the exception of Cuba and North Korea.

Of course, the American mainstream media wouldn’t like to admit any of this. In their minds, it is still useful (for distraction purposes) to manipulate the more mainstream and conservative members of their (shrinking) audience. They do this by treating Americans as fools and playing Don Quixote chasing “communist” windmills.

It serves their “Neocon” audiences.

What they have left out, in their news casts and discussion panels, was that communism in China was a terrible failure. When communism was implemented in China, it caused devastation, deaths, starvation, and the destruction of centuries of culture and society. Not just a few deaths, mind you. But whole-scale mass starvation. Not just the destruction of one or two museums, but most of the history of China. Not just the unwritten traditions, but really all aspects of Chinese life was adversely corrupted.

China, due to Mr. Mao and his advisors, was riding the bullet train towards catastrophic collapse.

In the 1970’s serious and drastic action needed to be taken to undo the ravages of communism. So numerous leaders “stepped up to the plate”. Each one acted as a hero in an attempt to stop the collapse of the Chinese government, and the resulting foreign intervention.

(You all know, don’t you, that once the Chinese nation collapsed, that rich and wealthy American elite would offer to “rebuild” the nation. You know, out of kindness…)

Implementation of Reaganomics in China in the 1980’s

So the Chinese all stepped up. One of the most famous was Mr. Deng. He and his stunning successes are known all over China. He implemented wide-scale Ronald Reagan economic policies. Only this time, he didn’t have Mr. Bush Sr. snapping at his heels. He didn’t have a media making fun of his actions calling it “Zombie Economics”, and he didn’t have Beijing reverse his polices as soon as they started to bear fruit.

All of which happened in the United States.

You see, back then, China was in a state of an emergency. It was a serious and a dangerous time. Thus, anyone trying to play political games for their own personal benefit, did so at the peril of the entire nation and race.

So, Mr. Deng was permitted to implement a Chinese-version of Reaganomics. He was given a small and tiny fishing village. He was given the tiny hamlet of Shenzhen to use as a “test bed”. And, it took off. The growth was astounding.

Today, Shenzhen is populated by 14 million busy inhabitants. To put that in perspective, New York has pretty much had a constant population of 4 million people over the last three decades.

Seeing the success of this, and other initiatives, too numerous to mention here, we have seen an evolution of China.

China moved from hard-line communist to something else.

China still calls itself “communist”

The Chinese refer to this new way of doing things as “Socialist with Chinese characteristics“, but what it really and functionally is is something quite different. It’s much the same way that Americans still claim that America is a Republic.

We, as Americans, can easily recognize the policy positions as near identical clones to Mr. Ronald Reagan’s “free market” policies. The most that you would ever… ever… ever, hear this reported is when the media begrudgingly admits that China is capitalist.

Though, the progressive mainstream media would NEVER admit to it. Though the hard-line Neo-cons would never say anything positive to their “dog and pony” show that narrates a communist enemy that needs to be opposed at every turn.

Ignorance about China

Yes. You can tell just how knowledgeable any “talking head” is in America when they refer to China as “Chicom’s” (Chinese communist), when in all actuality they are HARD-LINE CONSERVATIVE, and that they INSIST on tradition, and merit.

You know that Americans are manipulated when a Conservative American frets about…

China doing things…

• China imprisoning and reeducating radical Uighar Muslims.
• Cracking down on “free democracy” movements by SJW folk.
• Worrying about “junk” products made in China.

To which, I must say that China’s stance is very American Conservative on these issues…

America doing things…

• Radical Muslims must be vetted and kept out of America.
• Antifa, BLM, and other SJW’s are not permitted to disrupt day to day life.
• Make the products in America instead of importing them.

So, when I see and hear an American conservative take the “talking points” right out of FOX, or CNN, I know that they are just regurgitating the nonsense programming that is used to keep Americans dumb, stupid and living in fear.

If the American government was truly functional, they would have taken immediate steps to control the Antifa, and BLM riots, and mass SJW attacks and disruptions. They would have identified the leaders of the movement and arrested and detained them. They would have isolated the riots and attacks with trained forces and collected the agitators and sent them off to discover what their malfunction was.

• Preventing ambulances from helping people.
• Damaging stores and public works.
• Looting stores and communities.
• Throwing chemical milkshakes and beating innocents with bikelocks.

People! This is what a functional and responsible government looks like; Pay attention!

Pay attention!

Today, China is [1] a single-party government. One single party often means totalitarian. But, in my mind it sure as heck beats “pretend democracy” with is mob rule manipulation.

Oh, and by the way, the Chinese do not mess around. They are a serious, serious nation that is run as a meritocracy. Their leaders got there through merit, not by a popularity contest, or through political placement. This is a serious cold-hard fact that many Westerners need to grasp their heads around.

China is not what you think.

The government is [2] nationalist with [3] “China First” objectives. The government is set up to support the Chinese people. Not a global one-world order. As such they know that they must police their leadership. From 1997 though to 2013, the local government leaderships as well as the wealthy business owners started to take advantage and corruption became rife and problematic.

So the president Xi Peng implemented the “Corruption Police”.

This group is as powerful as the IRS in America and answers to no one except the President. No 9th circuit court or judge in Hawaii is going to block or postpone any actions that they take. As such, the bad guys in China are scared shitless. You either come clean with transparency or you WILL suffer the consequences. And believe you me, you don’t want to do Hard Time in China.

The Chinese “Corruption Police”…

They [4] believe in free-market economics, and [5] vigorously defend the traditionally conservative Chinese social way of life. That being said, the Chinese culture is “Chinese conservative”, not “American conservative”. They are similar, but NOT identical.

China is a traditional conservative nation.

Not, American conservative, mind you. They are Chinese conservative. Which means that they hold many of the same beliefs and ways of doing things that an American Conservative would agree with. But not all of them.

• Mother and Father are parents.
• Father works and supports the family.
• Mother takes care of the home and children.
• Education is important, and merit based.
• Success is achieved through hard work, and merit.
• Vices are normal and need social outlets.
• Any person who does not agree to the above are ill and need to be medically corrected and isolated from society.

As such, the Chinese family and relationships look like they came right out of the American 1950’s. The man goes out and works hard, has a beer or two with his buddies after work, and then comes home to his family.

Yes. It’s Fred Flintstone style. Yes. Wally and the Beaver style. Yes. The Brady Bunch style.

And when the man comes home from a hard day’s work, he will give 100% of his pay to his wife. She will use this money to take care of the household, invest in the education of the children, and maintain the social standing of their family with the rest of society.

She in turn, will have his house clothes washed and laid out on the bed for him. His slippers will be ready for him when he gets inside, and after he takes his after work shower, he will find a nicely laid out dinner waiting for him. Often (depending on the person) with a alcoholic libation waiting for him.

China is a Traditional Nation.

Here is a handy chart that I composed describing the differences between American Progressive Liberal belief, and Chinese beliefs. It goes a long way to illustrate how close modern China is to the traditional American Conservatism. As well as how far removed it is from the progressive reality of America today, and the communist ideal that China came from.

While most of America is enjoying the progressive themed Hollywood movies (women in leadership roles, people with superpowers granted to them through luck, and diversity in every scene), the Chinese produce movies and videos around more traditional themes. The music, even the more up-beat, aren’t as harsh. The women are sweeter, and they aren’t wagging their enormous trashcan jugged assess at the screen.

Culture and society are a reflection of what the nation is. In a like vein, Hollywood is a reflection of what America is today. To understand what China is like, all you need do is pay attention to their culture…

What does this mean

The traditional notions of America being the land of “Democracy” against the evil Communists is wholly outdated. The “cold war” ended with Ronald Reagan. He finished off the success and rule of communism.

Yet, the oligarchs would have none of this. They argue that it wasn’t implemented properly. Maybe Pol Pot wasn’t harsh enough. Maybe they weren’t diverse enough. Maybe they weren’t ruthless enough. They write about this, and announce their intentions quite openly.

For instance…

Make no mistake, the globe is forming into two sides. Sides, mind you, that are so diametrically opposed in fundamental belief systems that the ability to coexist will not be possible.

Here is a map of the world today. The conservative traditionalist nations are colored in RED, and the “enlightened” progressive globalist oligarchy are in BLUE. Most other nations are unknown in this regard, and are left bare and uncolored.

The Implications

The implications of such a realization are astounding. By looking at the globe in this manner, we can clearly see that philosophy and ideologies are what frame the way that the globe operates today.

• Almost every democracy has devolved into mob-rule controlled by a rich oligarchy.
• Almost every former communist nation has evolved into a traditional conservative nation.
• The oligarchy owns the media in the regions they control. As such they try to keep the “cold war” alive through fear to control their people.
• Oligarchies help each other out. It is almost like they share the same blood-lines or something.
• Conservative nations tend to be populist and nationalistic. They only make agreements that serve their own interests.

Important Note

These are only my opinions. Perhaps, you the reader, have other ideas. That is fine. This is nothing more than a very simplistic overview of but one equation of a very complex calculus. For all that I did was simply map out conservative belief structures against progressive belief structures globally.

The reader should note that there are cultural differences that also come into play. For instance, a conservative American would believe that everyone should own firearms, while a conservative Chinese would believe that civilian ownership of firearms should be banned.

To the American, it might seem that it really isn’t conservative at all.

After all, the right to self-defense is a role liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights. But to the Chinese that seems strange, as in China, all children are given basic military training at an early age. By the time they are 16 they know how to work together as a team, and how to perform the most basic of military disciplines. When the time comes to undergo more rigorous training, they can opt out with parental consent. However, with consent, they are able to learn the more martial skills expected of a soldier.

While the implementation of the right of self-preservation differs, both conservatives maintain the importance given in this liberty. How it is implemented is different, that’s all.

In American conservatism, the individual has the Right to exercise that right and train on his own dime. In Chinese conservatism, everyone must learn how to protect themselves and the nation if called upon to do so.

Here is a handy dandy chart of the comparisons between Chinese and American Conservatism. As I have repeatedly stated, Chinese conservatism is similar to, but not identical to American conservatism. (Remember, however, that the Chinese government operates under Chinese Conservative rules, while the American government operates under progressive Marxist rules.)

The effect of these changes on America…

All of the progressive changes has come at a price for Americans. It has lowered so many of the attributes that made America the fore-most leader in the world…

The United States enjoys the highest degree of personal freedom in the world 

Once again, a variety of indicators  are used by various study groups to determine the level of personal  freedom enjoyed by citizens across the world, including economic freedom  (the ability to earn a living wage, and retain it for personal use),  political freedom, access to education, religious freedom, and many  others. 

The evaluation is then compared between nations,  and in the final comparison the United States routinely ranks in the  second ten. America’s neighbor to the north, Canada, invariably finishes  with a higher ranking of personal freedom than the United States. So do  New Zealand (consistently first among numerous rankings), Taiwan, and  the United Kingdom.

The all too frequent response from  Americans ill-disposed to accept such rankings is to huff “If you don’t  like it leave,” or some similar retort, as well as denial of the  accuracy of the ratings. 

After all, the phrase “land of the free” is  included in the national anthem, and is far more accurate than any  intellectual studies. As with many facts which are in conflict with  accepted myths, they are inconvenient, and thus to many must be  considered inaccurate. 

Nonetheless, the rankings, some of which are far  less laudatory of American freedom, exist, there existence is a fact,  and whether or not one agrees with their findings they are easily  available for study. 

The rest of the world may see them as well, and a  student in Wellington may well wonder why American leaders claim to live  in the greatest degree of freedom in the world, when the facts before  their eyes indicate otherwise. 

-TopTenz

As well as..

The United States is the richest country in the world 

Besides the belief that the United  States is the best educated country in the world enjoying the highest  standard of living in the history of humanity is the belief that America  is the richest nation in the world, evidenced by the vast reserves of  minerals still untapped within its borders and off its shores. 

Again,  the ranking of nations by wealth is subject to the variations of the  means used for evaluation, but the United States again does not crack  the top five in many rankings. Using the standard of Gross Domestic  Product per capita, or GDP by individual, the United States ranked seventh in 2018, trailing international leader Luxembourg by almost half. It also trailed Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, and Qatar.

Fox Business used another mix of  criteria to list what it called the world’s wealthiest countries in May  2019, but even by its standard, which gave Monaco the top spot, the  United States did not crack the top five. 

When using privately held  wealth as the standard of measure, as did Visual Capitalist in May 2019,  the United States jumped all the way to number one, a piece of data  which offers a meaty bone of contention for those prone to enter into  spirited discussions of what it means for society. 

Fortune Magazine  listed the fifteen richest countries in the world in November 2017, and  in its list it included the United States, ranking it above Iceland, the  Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia in 12th.  

The argument over which nation is the richest in the world can be made  using a variety of data as the facts for supporting it, but by most  objective evaluations the United States is not in the top five. 
 
-TopTenz 

Not to omit…

The United States has the highest standard of education in the world 

The United States has the admiration  and respect of the civilized world for the availability and quality of  education it offers all of its citizens. Such is a belief held by many  to the point that it is an irrefutable fact of the modern world. It is  incorrect. 

Though the United States ranks near the top in expenditures  for education, at all levels, when compared to other civilized nations  it is quickly apparent that money spent does not equal education  achieved. In the percentage of students completing primary education the  United States does not make the top five (Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Israel,  Saudi Arabia, and Mexico). 

For secondary education (that is, completing  high school) the USA again does not make the top five. Nor does the  United States rank in the top five for completion of post high school  degrees, though in fairness such degrees mean different things in  different parts of the world.

The World Top Twenty Project looked  at post education success as well as other indicators to rank civilized  nations by education in 2018, with the United States absent from the  resulting list of the top twenty, which was led by South Korea. 

The  United States own Center on International Education Benchmarking, a  project of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), lists the top performing nations of the world in terms of education  and does not include the United States among the top ten, instead  reporting on the progress made in the listed nations and the changes  which could be adaptable to American education systems. 

When CNBC listed  the top ten most educated nations of the world in February, 2018, it  listed the United States as sixth, a ranking bolstered to some extent by  the number of foreign students completing advanced degrees at American  institutions. 

-TopTenz 

Conclusion

The last fifty years has seen an absolute role reversal for both the United States and China. The United States today is an oligarchy that treats it’s citizens as serfs in a land with a two-tiered justice system.

Anyone who does not see this is a FUCKING IDIOT.

When you have some poor sop getting 70 years in prison for having a picture of a single nude 14 year old girl on his computer, and a serial pedophile rapist who has repeatedly raped over 1000 children under 14 (Epstein), who got the most lenient sentence in the history of law, should be obvious to everyone except the most partisan hack.

And, let’s not even talk about Hillary Clinton, and Lois Learner. Eh?

Meanwhile, China is a meritocracy. It is advancing forward using the exact same formula that made America the strongest nation in the world in the 1700’s.

To pretend that contemporaneous China, and the United States fit the tired old stereotypical narrative as portrayed by the mainstream media is to play the village idiot. It’s not the same, and does not, in any way, resemble that narrative.

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