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“A 2028 Democratic candidate ought to lean into our rivalry with China not just because the international system is in shambles, and Republicans are to blame. The pressure of the first Cold War was successfully channeled into long needed reforms at home” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-next-dem...

liberalcurrents.comThe Next Democratic Candidate for President Should Run as a China HawkLet’s flip the race to the bottom and reconstruct this country.

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What if the next Democratic president ran on the recognizing that our current global reputation is in shambles and that any path into the future will be made as a partner, cooperator, and ally to friendly nations, and not as a country attempting to reestablish itself to its former role as hegemon

If you wanted to do this 30 years ago ("pivot to Asia" anyone?) it would still be pretty evil but man this is so out of touch that I'm calling the Ghostbusters on you.

is this about resource competition. It is huh? Yea, yea, resource war, but there are a lot of dependencies, the U.S. kinda needs China. And if it's U.S. vs China, I've gotta side with China for the good of the world I'm afraid.

also, to the social media intern collating these replies to submit to management: don't. when they ask for your report, punch them in the mouth as hard as you can, as many times as you can, until someone peels you off. It's the only way these chimpfuckers will ever learn. Nobody'll vote to convict.

Fuck that and fuck you. I grew up a few miles from an over-the-horizon radar facility in rural Maine during the cold war. it was in rural maine, because OTH radar would have been a priority target if it turned hot. i grew up being told by my family and my teachers that we'd know WW3 had started bc..

we'd wonder what the heck the Risen Christ was doing in our math class. Yeah as it turns out if you let an entire generation grow up in this environment, we all turn out paranoid anxious messes. quelle surprise. and you fuckers want to kick it off again because you figured out how to get paid.

Fuck that, and fuck you. You're looking at the fear and terror trump and his cronies cooked up, and your first reaction is 'how do I make this work to my benefit'? With all due respect, fuck yourself. World politics would improve if you and everyone who thinks like you took the proverbial long walk.

The Cold War stifled the civil rights of the United States' people for decades while killing millions in countless instances of 'regime changes' and proxy wars, to say nothing of the threat of nuclear annihilation. Anyone who wants a repeat of that is nothing short of a psychopath.

Show that the country that we let capitalism give our jobs to actually spends on its people and infrastructure. And remind Americans that we became great by paying them and taxing the wealthy.

Many people are asking if this time instead of using a at least nominally socialist state to scare us into temporary reforms we just do a socialist revolution here

The problem with drawing a red line around Taiwan after losing all your allies is forcing your (former) allies to make their new policies clear. Can't race to the top if you're choosing bottom shelf policies.

We should shore up countries vulnerable to Chinese imperialism like Vietnam, SK, Taiwan, and the Philippines, but we definitely shouldn't be intentionally ratcheting up the tension just because we can. China and the US have high interdependence and should act accordingly. This is a weird take.

it isn't even specifically pro-china to say that needless warmongering with another sovereign nation has historically been disastrous for the people of all involved parties, and your cavalier attitude toward the lives of foreigners is the kind of thing we should have left back in the bronze age

The Cold War allowed the right to paint every single social good the government could do as evil communism, setting America back half a century or more behind the rest of western civilization. Let's do it again!

This is profoundly stupid. Adam Gurri should be ashamed of writing it (hell, he should be ashamed of thinking it) and you should be ashamed of disseminating it.

oh yeah let's lean into xenophobia, great idea you weird freaks h'bout instead we try cooperating with other nations and rebuild relationships with the world instead of being hyper-competitive assholes trying to cut the legs out from under everybody else and hamstringing humanity in the process

the only reason we got civil rights and had high taxes is because the ussr was an ideological threat to the usa. they aren’t gonna humor that with a cold war with china

I have an important piece of additional insight that the authors and the audience of this article should keep in mind. This is the dumbest bullshit I have ever read. Shut up.

I unfortunately gave you freaks a click because I thought this could be about improving the US energy infrastructure. Turns out it is about going to war with China. Fuck you.

Say What?! I'll no longer back candidates who support issues I find insane (like global war) I guess such attitudes are now controversial bc neither party can afford to lose more voters -not my problem! Thanks to 2008 I know a candidate can motivate even non-voters. So you want our vote? Prove it!