Before launching right into my response

First and foremost is the idea that USSR and/or china ever posed a serious geopolitical threat in the 1960’s—1980s. Like, they were going to invade us and overtake us? Slow your roll there, Wolverines.

Second, the fact that you seem to think the myriad taxation policies were in any way related to the geopolitical threat posed by either.

Boomer pol: “we need to lower corporate taxes and index social security to inflation and expand Medicare part D”

Voter: ok but y tho

Boomer pol: “because otherwise we’ll all be speaking Russian and/or Chinese”

Last, in what is surely the greatest irony of all, the inflationary monetary policies that are predicated upon (and a reaction to) decades of fiscal irresponsibility have indeed created an opening for China to take a greater place on the world stage. In that very real scenario, and due to the myriad geopolitical domestic and foreign cosequences flowing from that possibility, it may actually be In our individual and collective interest *to learn to speak chinese*

In other words, there was no threat. The policies enacted against a threat that never existed would not address the threat. And if they did anything, the policies ineffectually enacted to prevent the threat that never existed became the means whereby the non-existent threat actually gained viability.

This is the most boomer thing of the day, DB, and I thank you for it.