The Beauty Of US Is We Don’t Need Dictators

Never have. Never will…

Every time I hear Trump praise a dictator — which is frequent — especially if that dictator said something nice about him, he’s never asked the right follow-up question.

Take the Joe Rogan slot Trump did. In which he said admiringly that President Xi, in China, “controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.”

Rogan’s follow-up: “it doesn’t mean he’s not evil, or it doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous”. Fair enough.

At the same time: “isn’t a great thing about the US that we don’t need that? We can have dissent and still have the strongest economy in the world?” might be another comeback.

The US, without a dictator, without “iron fist” rule, with lots of dissent about almost everything, still has the biggest, strongest, most nimble, most innovative economy in the world: stronger than China, stronger than Russia, stronger than Hungary, stronger than North Korea by light years.

Not only that, but the US is also more innovative than those other countries, because dictatorships tend to stifle entrepreneurship and innovation, because dictators like to make sure they hand pick who is allowed to make a lot of money. And that includes emerging technologies, which are the hardest to control.