Chris Pratt – USA Gov Policy

Actor Christopher Pratt is the latest target of the “Everything about America is bad” crowd. He was spotted wearing a T shirt with a picture of the famous Gadsen Flag, bearing the Revolutionary War motto, “Don’t Tread on Me.” It was a symbol of resolve against the tyranny of a distant monarch who sought to eliminate the freedoms of a people who had become used to self-government. For that offense against the Left’s maniacal “political correctness,” he was soundly criticized.

There are several culprits in the movement to cast absolutely everything about the U.S. as terrible, and to wholly hide the reality that the nation’s origins were the greatest advance in human rights in mankind’s history. (Yes, there were imperfections, but they were eventually corrected.)

Let’s start with the pro-socialism crowd. Despite that philosophy being responsible for approximately one hundred million murders throughout its comparatively short history and the oppression and impoverishment of even more, its current advocates continue to seek to implement it in the United States. Socialism is the mirror opposite of America’s bedrock principles of individual rights and a capitalist economic system. There is no logical excuse to continue the bitter failure of socialism, and so its proponents seek to avoid that reality by tearing down the most successful economic/political system ever devised.

Consider next the Democratic Party’s ultra-partisans, who, until the current Administration is out of office, will condemn any instance of pride in America’s history as being an endorsement of the present White House. They are willing to castigate any and everything about the nation to create a false sense of desperation that they allege can only be resolved by electing one of their number. They place their political goals far above the good of the nation.

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There is an additional strategy for those folks. The voters do not demonstrate much enthusiasm for hard-left policies, so they seek to alter the population. That is why, despite the expense, public safety, health and other problems that arise from illegal immigration, they fervently push for open borders. Their philosophy: If the current crop of voters don’t agree with them, bring in a different set of people to tip the scales. It would only take a relatively small number of illegal voters in a number of states to tip the scales of the electoral college. That goal is behind all the schemes to avoid implementing a picture ID requirement, and to give illegals drivers’ licenses that they can use to register.

The final group is the most disturbing of all. There is little that is as dangerous to the political health of a free people as ignorance, particularly of their own past. The university and educational dons, who are overwhelmingly hard-left, know that contrasting the success and human rights of American history with the tyranny and economic disaster of Socialism will not serve their political beliefs well, have done all they can to avoid and miscast the nation’s past. Foreign influences are also at play. The Chinese government has actively attempted to push its propaganda through “Confucius Institutes” at universities across the nation. The Clarion Project reports that Qatar is doing something similar, providing $1.4 billion to universities, and $30 million to public schools.

As the Qatar example demonstrates, this intellectual malpractice is not just at the college level. Far too many state educational systems at the grammar and high school levels now virtually ignore teaching U.S. history, or provide a biased version of it.

There are few things that can weaken or even destroy a nation more readily and thoroughly than a concerted attack on its fundamental principles, its culture, and its history. That is precisely the crisis that America currently faces.

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Quick Analysis

China’s Tech Targets

Chinese technology is changing and its leadership is using it, along with espionage, to challenge the West in a number of critical areas. The United States is only one of its targets. Previously, Beijing’s spies primarily sought Western technologies as a way to skip generations of develop cost and time to modernize its economy. Today, its acquisition of advanced technologies, and now also its indigenous development, makes the communist giant a threat to freedom-loving people everywhere. This week Nan Mulchandani, the CIA’s chief technology officer, said Director William Burns is preparing for an “infinite race” with Beijing for artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. He argues the US must pivot toward providing American spies with the latest transformative technologies to outcompete China. Mulchandani says this means updating everything the agency does “from operations to the analytic function, support functions and other piece there.” America, he suggests, needs to alter its thinking toward viewing this not as a race with a finite end point, but as an ongoing competition. Mr. Mulchandani predicted that the next area of competition would “be primarily a software war that is powered by something like AI” rather than hardware fueled by software. That competition, however, is not confined to simply acquiring critical technologies for use in the future. China is also challenging the US in space. China announced today it launched a groundbreaking mission to retrieve samples from the far side of the moon. The space capsule will arrive in four days and collect 4.4 pounds of moon rocks and regolith, or moon dirt. Beijing’s desire to one day become a space power and scientific force is for pragmatic purposes in 2024 a fait accompli. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, said during a NASA budget hearing this week, that “while the US remains the global leader in space exploration, we face increasing challenges internationally.” Referring to China’s space station, Lucas said: “We cannot allow China to become the front-runner in space exploration… There are too many consequences for our competitiveness, our national security, and our continued ability to explore space.” A new report released this week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says that the United States, to further its geopolitical interests and maintain a strong domestic economy, must approach every aspect of economic and trade policy through the lens of global technology competition. The Biden Administration’s approach, it says, discounts the landscape of competition between China and the US and may “jeopardize US advancements in emerging technologies… which could cede the advantage to China….” In particular, the report recommends that the US take action now because quantum and artificial intelligence (AI) need a federal policy to ensure the country can spur the entrepreneurship and R&D efforts foundational to the strength of the technology sector. As China’s Communist Party (CCP) becomes more hostile to the United States and other Western nations, its aggressive activities abroad expand and intensify. Chinese spy cases far outnumber those of Russia and every other nation. CSIS reports that since President Xi took over in 2012 there have been 224 incidents of spying. Estimates of the long -term economic, scientific, and national security cost to the US run into the billions and have “created immeasurable damage to national security with the theft of weapons technology, including nuclear weapons test data… China has added the theft of massive quantities of personal information, political coercion, and influence operations, to its espionage activities.” The CSIS reports says that 49% of incidents of spying in the US directly involved Chinese military or government employees, with private Chinese citizens accounted for 41%. In 29% of the espionage cases the person involved was attempting to acquire military technology, while in 54% of the incidents it was related to commercial technologies. Almost half of the cases involved cyber espionage, usually by state—affiliated actors. No matter where one turns today China is challenging the West, from the depths of our oceans to outer space. The United States cannot count on China to be a good global citizen and refrain from attempting to enforce its vision of world order with Beijing at the apex. The time is growing short for the West to take action. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept.