Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Good: Even WBEZ recognizes the inherent problem created in government by reflexively electing the same Democrats to office year after year.
Bad: WBEZ’s solution (not in this article, but overall) is to elect *different*, more progressive Democrats, year after year, to fix the very problems the very same Democrat voters created by reflexively electing the same Democrats to office year after year.