Jenny Beth Martin's last question to Orren Wang is the one the Surviving Communism series was built to ask. He grew up under communism, lived through 1989, and now hears young Americans say they want to abolish the police, ICE, the Senate and prisons, with health care for all, housing for everyone and no capitalism. What does he think, and does he have a warning?
His answer starts bluntly. The people making those promises never lived under communism and do not know what they are talking about. Under socialism in the Chinese countryside there were no doctors; if you got sick you found a cure yourself. Give the government ownership, he says, and you lose your economic freedom first, then your religious freedom, then your political freedom, until you are subservient to the state. That is the road you do not even want to look at.
Then he says something he admits is not a popular opinion. Free-market capitalism is the way to prosperity, but it may need reform, and the reform he wants is an old one: break up the monopolies. Fighting monopoly, he reminds the audience, is a Republican idea. Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican president with a Republican Congress after McKinley's assassination, broke up the trusts so the free market could work. Part of socialism's appeal to the young, he says, is that this economy does not seem to work for them, and the answer is to restore the market, not abolish it. Jenny Beth Martin closes on the lockdowns and the Biden administration's interference as the overreach young people are actually reacting to.
Guest: Orren Wang, CPA, who grew up under communism in China, took part in the 1989 democracy protests in Chengdu, and came to the United States as a student in 1994.
In this segment:
• The promises on offer: abolish the police, ICE, the Senate and prisons
• They never lived under communism and do not know what they are talking about
• No doctors in the countryside: what socialist health care looked like in rural China
• Economic freedom first, then religious, then political
• That's the road you don't even want to take a look at
• Capitalism may need reform, and the reform is breaking up monopolies
• Fighting monopoly is a Republican idea: Theodore Roosevelt and the trusts
• Why this economy feels broken to young people, and why the answer is more market, not less
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00:00 — One last question: famines, 1989, and what young Americans are saying
00:29 — Abolish the police, ICE, the Senate and prisons: the promises on offer
00:59 — Do you have a warning for Americans?
01:15 — His first answer: they never lived under communism
02:30 — No doctors in the countryside under socialism
02:59 — First your economic freedom, then religious, then political
03:30 — That's the road you don't even want to take a look at
04:13 — Capitalism needs reform: break up the monopolies
04:50 — Fighting monopoly is a Republican idea: Theodore Roosevelt
06:03 — Why socialism appeals to the young, and the fix: restore the market
06:41 — Jenny Beth Martin: free markets, less interference, the lockdowns
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