MISSING: EVEN A LANGUAGE ON THE "LEFT" OF THE USA
Here's a c ommentary from the "left" of the US, coming at us 3 days before the inauguration of Creep1. Factually correct, yet, . . . everything is says is . . . pretty much . . . wrong. Daft. And I'm saying this from a lifelong commitment to critique from the left. But not like this , please. Given the context, the expression "industrialized nation" is meant to say 'rich, happy and well managed country'. However, in 2025, (since the mid-seventies, actually) industry per se is increasingly synonymous with 'middle-income'. Industrialization involves reliance on a first-generation labor force freshly released from peasant existence into industry . . . hardly a fitting description of the US nowadays . . . more like China, Indonesia, Vietnam today, South Korea, Taiwan or Hong Kong a generation ago . . . and Japan, the USSR and east European socialist countries two generations ago, etc. . . In other words, "industry" became much less of...