{"id":113,"date":"2020-03-14T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-03-14T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:04:58","slug":"the-failure-of-neocon-ideas-about-capitalism-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/14\/the-failure-of-neocon-ideas-about-capitalism-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The failure of neocon ideas about capitalism and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill review Flying Dog&#8217;s Lucky SOB, an Irish Red Ale, and then talk about China.<\/p>\n<p>Who was the genius who decided to make the U.S. economy so dependent on China? And why isn&#8217;t the media exposing this dangerous, lopsided relationship?<\/p>\n<p>Our China policy seems to have developed from the idea that a free market is going to result in freedom. But &#8230; does that follow?<\/p>\n<p>We brought these monsters into the World Trade Organization &#8212; with &#8220;most favored nation&#8221; status &#8212; on the silly hope that more capitalism would make them love freedom. Or something. <\/p>\n<p>As a result of George Bush&#8217;s foolish Chinese policy, we now have Huawei &#8212; a Chinese telecom company &#8212; installing spyware everywhere in the world. Thanks, George. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13546838\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill review Flying Dog&#8217;s Lucky SOB, an Irish Red Ale, and then talk about China. Who was the genius who decided to make the U.S. economy so dependent on China? And why isn&#8217;t the media exposing this dangerous, lopsided relationship? Our China policy seems to have developed from the idea that a free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/14\/the-failure-of-neocon-ideas-about-capitalism-and-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The failure of neocon ideas about capitalism and freedom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}