I have no words for Tom Friedman’s reaction to the election results:
But Donald Trump cannot be a winner unless he undergoes a radical change in personality and politics and becomes everything he was not in this campaign. He has to become a healer instead of a divider; a compulsive truth-teller rather than a compulsive liar; someone ready to study problems and make decisions based on evidence, not someone who just shoots from the hip; someone who tells people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear; and someone who appreciates that an interdependent world can thrive only on win-win relationships, not zero-sum ones.
because of the enormity of the cognitive dissonance it reflects.
Let me put it into words Mr. Friedman might understand. A lot of people in the United States just as in the rest of the world don’t want the flat world that you do.
Friedman thinks America should be run like China. He’s as unserious a commentator as they come.
It’s not the lack of seriousness that got my goat. It’s the lack of self-awareness.
The only people who think that the U. S. should be more like China think they would be members of the Politburo. What Tom Friedman doesn’t get is that if the U. S. were more like China they’d be cutting him up to sell his organs.