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Su reminded me how Liu has always been
haunted by the "ghosts" of Tiananmen, the young people who used their
bodies to block tanks and lost their lives. Today, those youths might ask from
their graves, "For what?" The primary student demand in 1989 was to
"oppose graft and corruption." But those were days when corruption
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refers to in his essays as the "power elite": a coalition bound by
interests, not sentiment or ideology, that dominates re-sources, controls the
media, runs the police, hires thugs, manipulates courts, buys off intellectual
and entrepreneurial talent, invests its money overseas, and spends immense
amounts (even more, this year, than on the military) for "stability
maintenance" operations whose mission is to monitor potential
"troublemakers" and to nip in the bud any sign of an organization
that might compete with it.We tolerate the uncool. Sometimes we
secretly look up to them, overcome by the sense that they must know something
we don't or they wouldn't be reading those tomes about health policy. But it is
the ones who are uncool and nonetheless try to "relate" that inspire
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manage their finances or hold a job for more than two years, and you often hear
them say things such as "After this weekend, I'll pay all my bills with
winnings from the dog track!" Later they will be punished, after they
succeed so well in convincing their kids that they are not their parents but
their best friends and these kids rush off and get impregnated by Levi Johnston.
The early GOP field has consisted of a
number of such Actually Cool Aunts — Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, both as
effortlessly immature as the days they were born. But Mitt has to work at it.
And watching him work is just embarrassing, like when your father asks if you
like his "baling."