There is still a recount, but it appears that a referendum to create a local minimum wage of $15/hour in SeaTac, Washington has succeeded. On one side, the usual business interests are engaging in doomsaying. On the other side, labor groups such as the SEIU (which has also backed fast food worker demands for $15/hour) have waged a strong fight.
In most municipalities, this sort of law is risky, as businesses may make good on their threats to leave. SeaTac has the advantage of infrastructure, being the home of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is not easy to move. Socialism in one city might just work there. SeaTac also has a high minority population, which may be a harbinger of future ethnic minority-labor union coalitions to raise wages in the US.
In any case, the mere fact that people are discussing and acting on this sort of measure is itself a shocking sign of progress in US political discourse. Some recent articles have noted that young Americans are less likely to reject Marxist analysis than are those who were shaped by Cold War propaganda and anxieties. It seems that immigrants from places that have seen actual Marxist movements and policies are also unlikely to share the sharply libertarian approach to economic issues that has had a stranglehold on US culture since the US was founded (i.e., the myth of the self-made "man").
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Progress in Massachusetts?
I'm usually pessimistic about the possibility of a more humane and just society, but there have been two hopeful developments in Massachusetts. They might not go anywhere, but these possibilities usually aren't even on the table.
1. Legislators are considering raising the Commonwealth's minimum wage from $8 to $11 by 2015. Given the high cost of living Massachusetts, such an increase would just about keep pace with the national minimum wage in lost cost areas like Alabama. Of course the usual business interests are protesting the proposal, but their threats are pretty empty, since retailers and other low-end service employers are far more likely to slightly raise prices than to close up their businesses in protest against an extra $3 per hour (by 2015, following a gradual increase). Such employers can't move their Wal-Marts and Market Baskets to Mississippi or Alabama any more than they could have moved them to Bangladesh or Laos. Ultimately, the main pressure will be for higher wages, not fewer jobs. This is one small piece of regaining the share of GDP that capital has taken from labor over the last 30 or so years in the U.S.
2. Gubernatorial candidate Don Berwick has announced a health care platform that includes a single-payer health insurance plan. In the wake of the Healthcare.gov failures, a plan to drastically simplify health insurance makes sense. More importantly, as Berwick points out, for governments and employers alike, health care costs in the U.S., including Massachusetts, are rising so quickly that they are a serious danger to economic vitality. An employer-based health insurance system, with some government programs for the poor, disabled, and elderly, is incredibly inefficient and fails to cut out the obvious and unnecessary middle-men: insurers.
1. Legislators are considering raising the Commonwealth's minimum wage from $8 to $11 by 2015. Given the high cost of living Massachusetts, such an increase would just about keep pace with the national minimum wage in lost cost areas like Alabama. Of course the usual business interests are protesting the proposal, but their threats are pretty empty, since retailers and other low-end service employers are far more likely to slightly raise prices than to close up their businesses in protest against an extra $3 per hour (by 2015, following a gradual increase). Such employers can't move their Wal-Marts and Market Baskets to Mississippi or Alabama any more than they could have moved them to Bangladesh or Laos. Ultimately, the main pressure will be for higher wages, not fewer jobs. This is one small piece of regaining the share of GDP that capital has taken from labor over the last 30 or so years in the U.S.
2. Gubernatorial candidate Don Berwick has announced a health care platform that includes a single-payer health insurance plan. In the wake of the Healthcare.gov failures, a plan to drastically simplify health insurance makes sense. More importantly, as Berwick points out, for governments and employers alike, health care costs in the U.S., including Massachusetts, are rising so quickly that they are a serious danger to economic vitality. An employer-based health insurance system, with some government programs for the poor, disabled, and elderly, is incredibly inefficient and fails to cut out the obvious and unnecessary middle-men: insurers.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
How the Republican Party Will End Soon
I don't like making predictions like this, because such predictions are almost always wrong. So here goes: The Republican Party as it now exists will end within a decade because of the gay marriage issue. No, not the fiscal issues and tactics debated with reference to the Tea Party. And not the so-called isolationism of Rand Paul and his libertarian-leaning supporters or immigration reform proposals. Those splits might be costly to Republicans, but both sides in each of those disputes can live with each other.
So what's that "as it now exists" qualifier? By that I mean, as a national party that can win and hold power in either elected branch of government. As a result of disagreement regarding gay marriage, there is almost certain to be a major split that will doom the party in elections for the foreseeable future.
This week there is a story about a public dispute between Dick Cheney's two daughters on the issue. I happen to think that Liz Cheney is only (probably unsuccessfully) pandering to Wyoming voters, but this conflict nicely illustrates a larger one among Republicans. On the one hand, a growing majority of, not only U.S. voters, but soon of Republicans as well, has no problem with homosexuality or its legal implications. Within the party elite, even anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist has joined the GOProud faction, while Wall Street Journal types are at least muted on the issue.
But hardcore social conservatives (the Religious Right, as they were once known), will not change. Giving in on gay marriage would violate the most central beliefs of Christian conservatives in particular, so it's not going to happen. For most Evangelicals, the inerrant and infallible words of the Bible are read as calling any and all homosexual actions sinful with no exceptions. For most conservative Catholics, the longstanding moral teaching of the Catholic Church adds weight to the same biblical passages. In both cases, gay marriage runs counter to the highest moral authority recognized by these groups, who probably make up at least half of the Republican Party's voter base.
As Republican elites are increasingly favorable to gay marriage and Republican politicians change their positions to appeal to a drastically-changed electorate, the social conservative element of the Republican base will have hard choices to make. In all likelihood, the likes of Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich will either start a new "true conservative" party or they will engage in unrestrained political warfare against Republican elites and politicians from within the party. There doesn't seem to be any way around that conclusion. As much as social conservatives are usually also fiscal conservatives, their root motivation is to "serve God rather than man."
To me, this will be a welcome development, as I oppose both the close association of Christianity with the nation-state and the two-party system. For the Democratic Party, it will probably be an incredible windfall, especially if (as is widely predicted) they become competitive in Texas. But for Republicans the soul-searching of 2008 and 2012 will only intensify over the next decade or two.
So what's that "as it now exists" qualifier? By that I mean, as a national party that can win and hold power in either elected branch of government. As a result of disagreement regarding gay marriage, there is almost certain to be a major split that will doom the party in elections for the foreseeable future.
This week there is a story about a public dispute between Dick Cheney's two daughters on the issue. I happen to think that Liz Cheney is only (probably unsuccessfully) pandering to Wyoming voters, but this conflict nicely illustrates a larger one among Republicans. On the one hand, a growing majority of, not only U.S. voters, but soon of Republicans as well, has no problem with homosexuality or its legal implications. Within the party elite, even anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist has joined the GOProud faction, while Wall Street Journal types are at least muted on the issue.
But hardcore social conservatives (the Religious Right, as they were once known), will not change. Giving in on gay marriage would violate the most central beliefs of Christian conservatives in particular, so it's not going to happen. For most Evangelicals, the inerrant and infallible words of the Bible are read as calling any and all homosexual actions sinful with no exceptions. For most conservative Catholics, the longstanding moral teaching of the Catholic Church adds weight to the same biblical passages. In both cases, gay marriage runs counter to the highest moral authority recognized by these groups, who probably make up at least half of the Republican Party's voter base.
As Republican elites are increasingly favorable to gay marriage and Republican politicians change their positions to appeal to a drastically-changed electorate, the social conservative element of the Republican base will have hard choices to make. In all likelihood, the likes of Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich will either start a new "true conservative" party or they will engage in unrestrained political warfare against Republican elites and politicians from within the party. There doesn't seem to be any way around that conclusion. As much as social conservatives are usually also fiscal conservatives, their root motivation is to "serve God rather than man."
To me, this will be a welcome development, as I oppose both the close association of Christianity with the nation-state and the two-party system. For the Democratic Party, it will probably be an incredible windfall, especially if (as is widely predicted) they become competitive in Texas. But for Republicans the soul-searching of 2008 and 2012 will only intensify over the next decade or two.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
It's a Noonan Day in America!, Part III
This time the Pegster addresses time and space from a highly scientific vantage point:
"Years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called 'A Sense of Where You Are.' I keep thinking about that title." Then some stuff about time and space, finding yourself so you can locate (italics in original) yourself, &c. Occasional jump shot, maybe?
"Politically where are we right now, at this moment?" As opposed to right now, at another moment.
Apparently Obamacare "dealt with something personal, even intimate: your health, the care of your body, the medicines you choose to take or procedures you get." But mostly your health insurance, which takes the form of paperwork, and also a lot of Hispanics taking up spots at the doctor's office, which is an invasive procedure, probably, as well as icky, I guess.
"The problem now is not the delivery system of the program, it’s the program itself. Not the computer screen but what’s inside the program. This is something you can’t get the IT guy in to fix." But maybe the Geek Squad guy from Best Buy can figure it out?
"Back to a sense of where we are. You know where we are? It’s as if it’s 1964 and the administration has just passed landmark civil rights legislation and the bill goes into effect, and everyone looks—only immediately it is apparent that it makes everyone’s life worse!"
George Wallace and Strom Thurmond are scratching their heads, Peg.
"It’s the biggest governmental enterprise that hasn't worked since the earliest beginnings of the U.S. rocket program, when they kept trying to send rockets into space and they kept falling, defeated and groaning, into the ground."
OK, the rockets were groaning? Anthropomorphize much? Also, I thought the biggest U.S. government failures were the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War...
"ObamaCare is a practical, policy and political disaster, a parlay of poisonous P’s." It's also a panoply of pernicious P's: A pugnacious, punctilious, and prudential disaster.
"Second point: I don’t know, maybe the Republican Party could focus on where we are and help those Americans who are beside themselves with anxiety?" Location, location, location, just like Bill Bradley knew when he won his political victories and what-not.
"Years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called 'A Sense of Where You Are.' I keep thinking about that title." Then some stuff about time and space, finding yourself so you can locate (italics in original) yourself, &c. Occasional jump shot, maybe?
"Politically where are we right now, at this moment?" As opposed to right now, at another moment.
Apparently Obamacare "dealt with something personal, even intimate: your health, the care of your body, the medicines you choose to take or procedures you get." But mostly your health insurance, which takes the form of paperwork, and also a lot of Hispanics taking up spots at the doctor's office, which is an invasive procedure, probably, as well as icky, I guess.
"The problem now is not the delivery system of the program, it’s the program itself. Not the computer screen but what’s inside the program. This is something you can’t get the IT guy in to fix." But maybe the Geek Squad guy from Best Buy can figure it out?
"Back to a sense of where we are. You know where we are? It’s as if it’s 1964 and the administration has just passed landmark civil rights legislation and the bill goes into effect, and everyone looks—only immediately it is apparent that it makes everyone’s life worse!"
George Wallace and Strom Thurmond are scratching their heads, Peg.
"It’s the biggest governmental enterprise that hasn't worked since the earliest beginnings of the U.S. rocket program, when they kept trying to send rockets into space and they kept falling, defeated and groaning, into the ground."
OK, the rockets were groaning? Anthropomorphize much? Also, I thought the biggest U.S. government failures were the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War...
"ObamaCare is a practical, policy and political disaster, a parlay of poisonous P’s." It's also a panoply of pernicious P's: A pugnacious, punctilious, and prudential disaster.
"Second point: I don’t know, maybe the Republican Party could focus on where we are and help those Americans who are beside themselves with anxiety?" Location, location, location, just like Bill Bradley knew when he won his political victories and what-not.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Socialism in One City
It's not earth-shattering, but Socialist Alternative candidate Kshama Sawant seems to have won a Seattle city council seat. Among other things, it will be interesting to see how her opposition to tax breaks and advocacy for the working class can actually affect things. There doesn't seem to be much room for such an approach as long as neighboring municipalities can adopt more business-friendly policies. Much the same problem confronts Bill de Blasio in New York City.
This is an old problem that the Soviet Union faced. Whereas Stalin wanted to build "socialism in one country," Trotsky was convinced that only a worldwide revolution would succeed in replacing capitalism. Then again, you have to start somewhere. Ultimately, I think that alternatives that can be economically competitive within a capitalist context, such as worker-owned cooperatives, along with some public enterprises, will be needed to replace capitalist social and economic structures.
In the meantime, electoral alternatives to capitalist political parties are needed, if only so that the will of the people, so feared by right-libertarians like Peter Thiel, has an outlet. This is necessary to keep the working class politically-engaged. (Guess what: The Democratic Party is not doing that.) On that level, Kshama Sawant and Bill de Blasio are Peter Thiel's worst nightmare: a real electoral alternative, however powerless they are to effect immediate change.
This is an old problem that the Soviet Union faced. Whereas Stalin wanted to build "socialism in one country," Trotsky was convinced that only a worldwide revolution would succeed in replacing capitalism. Then again, you have to start somewhere. Ultimately, I think that alternatives that can be economically competitive within a capitalist context, such as worker-owned cooperatives, along with some public enterprises, will be needed to replace capitalist social and economic structures.
In the meantime, electoral alternatives to capitalist political parties are needed, if only so that the will of the people, so feared by right-libertarians like Peter Thiel, has an outlet. This is necessary to keep the working class politically-engaged. (Guess what: The Democratic Party is not doing that.) On that level, Kshama Sawant and Bill de Blasio are Peter Thiel's worst nightmare: a real electoral alternative, however powerless they are to effect immediate change.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Dowd-Time
Maureen Dowd has been talking to friends of "Uncle Joe" Biden. They are unhappy, because Hillary, and also Obama, but why should we care, oh TV show: "There is a futuristic cop show starting soon on Fox called 'Almost Human,' produced by J.J. Abrams."
So there's a black robot and a bumbling white guy in 2048... OK, who are we kidding, this is about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, obvi: "Fox is billing the show as the first Robromance. But, of course, it’s not the first. We have one in the West Wing." "Robromance." How apt a description.
"In a capital known for hogging credit and stealing turf, Joe Biden has provided his boss with a rare loyalty over the last five years." So that's where my lawn went.
"His friends stress that Biden is not a golden retriever, but a sled dog, pulling his weight, chipping in, doing whatever he can." It's a low place to be, when your friends only think to compare you to different kinds of dogs. Also, this reminds me of Todd Palin (never trust a guy named Todd, btw).
So there's a black robot and a bumbling white guy in 2048... OK, who are we kidding, this is about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, obvi: "Fox is billing the show as the first Robromance. But, of course, it’s not the first. We have one in the West Wing." "Robromance." How apt a description.
"In a capital known for hogging credit and stealing turf, Joe Biden has provided his boss with a rare loyalty over the last five years." So that's where my lawn went.
"His friends stress that Biden is not a golden retriever, but a sled dog, pulling his weight, chipping in, doing whatever he can." It's a low place to be, when your friends only think to compare you to different kinds of dogs. Also, this reminds me of Todd Palin (never trust a guy named Todd, btw).
"Biden loyalists believe Daley added insult to injury by dishing..." zzzzzz
Friday, November 15, 2013
It's a Noonan Day in America!, Part II
It's all about message control in Noon-town, and what a message it is.
"Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press."
Moving right along... It seems that the press isn't doing it's job, namely criticizing the Affordable Care Act. For some reason Democrats aren't doing that either.
"Democrats aren’t talking about that, at least on the record, and none of them colorfully."
Worse yet, they aren't "colorfully" disparaging themselves, almost as if they know what they're doing. "They’re in the domestic political/policy debacle of their lives and their reaction is discretion." Which is a vice at the moment, it seems.
"More than four years ago, in July 2009, I wrote a column in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered President Obama some wisdom on health care." Clearly, history will remember July 2009 as the month when FDR appeared to Barack Obama, droppin' some serious wisdom.
"But FDR had an idea—a sly one, as his ideas usually were." FDR, who obviously is doing all this in the real world and not just in Peggy Noonan's head. "I still believe FDR was more or less right." OK, maybe this is the FDR of Noonan's feverish dream, but still, he has wisdom and what-not, so he's almost as good as the real thing.
Blah, blah, if only Obama had just worked with Republicans things would be great, Paul Ryan had a great health care plan that didn't just involve personal savings accounts in which poor people could stockpile all their accumulating wealth from capital gains.
"Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press."
Moving right along... It seems that the press isn't doing it's job, namely criticizing the Affordable Care Act. For some reason Democrats aren't doing that either.
"Democrats aren’t talking about that, at least on the record, and none of them colorfully."
Worse yet, they aren't "colorfully" disparaging themselves, almost as if they know what they're doing. "They’re in the domestic political/policy debacle of their lives and their reaction is discretion." Which is a vice at the moment, it seems.
"More than four years ago, in July 2009, I wrote a column in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered President Obama some wisdom on health care." Clearly, history will remember July 2009 as the month when FDR appeared to Barack Obama, droppin' some serious wisdom.
"But FDR had an idea—a sly one, as his ideas usually were." FDR, who obviously is doing all this in the real world and not just in Peggy Noonan's head. "I still believe FDR was more or less right." OK, maybe this is the FDR of Noonan's feverish dream, but still, he has wisdom and what-not, so he's almost as good as the real thing.
Blah, blah, if only Obama had just worked with Republicans things would be great, Paul Ryan had a great health care plan that didn't just involve personal savings accounts in which poor people could stockpile all their accumulating wealth from capital gains.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
It's a Noonan Day in America!
Today, the Pegster has some deep thoughts about the deep state:
"President Obama says he didn’t know the U.S. government was tapping Angela Merkel, and you know, maybe he didn’t."
I think she means Angela Merkel's phone. Anyhow.
"Maybe they’re bugging so many people it’s hardly news to them when they bug the chancellor of Germany. Maybe they mentioned it to the president, maybe not. Maybe they don’t know." Maybe they're bugging Joe Biden by repeatedly rick-rolling him. Maybe they're watching too much Bugs Bunny. Maybe they're starting an insect collection. It's hard to say. It could go either way.
"Maybe they will choose to be courteous to the president, stop the tap and present Germany with evidence the tap has stopped."
Trust, but verify--except during Oktoberfest.
"But maybe the deep state will think it doesn’t have to be pushed around by some joker who’ll be gone in a few years, to be replaced by another joker."
Why so serious?
Then P-noon goes on for a few paragraphs verbatim quoting Bob Woodward on the JFK assassination, from when she was on "Face the Nation" the other day. Anyhow back to parties in Northern Virginia:
"It is more bureaucratic than that, more banal, less colorful, less dramatic. It is more James Clapper than James Angleton, more Vienna, Va., than mildly sinister McLean dinner party."
It's more inside baseball than that alley behind Wrigley Field, more Alain Badiou, than Gilles Deleuze.
"But it is actually the big thing our country should be talking about now, needs to be talking about and would be talking about if only our president had not decided, a few years ago, to blow up the U.S. health-care system."
Too bad the Joker blew up the U.S. health-care system. I mean that as a metaphor for detonating a bomb, which corresponds closely to the CBO's assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in this metaphor, kind of like how Dodd-Frank was a Hiroshima, metaphorically-speaking, but not literally the same thing. Anyhow, too bad we can't do much talking right now, or even writing op-ed pieces about whatever comes to mind.
"Bonus anecdote." About "a famous European leader," who "looked crestfallen" after learning that someone is always spying on him.
"Later, to an aide, he said, 'I guess the only way to guarantee my privacy now is to sit crouched in the bathtub, with a big blanket over my head, talking to myself.'"
This guy sounds a bit more Charlie Brown than Jacques Chirac, more Bed-Stuy hipster party, than Upper West Side gala.
"President Obama says he didn’t know the U.S. government was tapping Angela Merkel, and you know, maybe he didn’t."
I think she means Angela Merkel's phone. Anyhow.
"Maybe they’re bugging so many people it’s hardly news to them when they bug the chancellor of Germany. Maybe they mentioned it to the president, maybe not. Maybe they don’t know." Maybe they're bugging Joe Biden by repeatedly rick-rolling him. Maybe they're watching too much Bugs Bunny. Maybe they're starting an insect collection. It's hard to say. It could go either way.
"Maybe they will choose to be courteous to the president, stop the tap and present Germany with evidence the tap has stopped."
Trust, but verify--except during Oktoberfest.
"But maybe the deep state will think it doesn’t have to be pushed around by some joker who’ll be gone in a few years, to be replaced by another joker."
Why so serious?
Then P-noon goes on for a few paragraphs verbatim quoting Bob Woodward on the JFK assassination, from when she was on "Face the Nation" the other day. Anyhow back to parties in Northern Virginia:
"It is more bureaucratic than that, more banal, less colorful, less dramatic. It is more James Clapper than James Angleton, more Vienna, Va., than mildly sinister McLean dinner party."
It's more inside baseball than that alley behind Wrigley Field, more Alain Badiou, than Gilles Deleuze.
"But it is actually the big thing our country should be talking about now, needs to be talking about and would be talking about if only our president had not decided, a few years ago, to blow up the U.S. health-care system."
Too bad the Joker blew up the U.S. health-care system. I mean that as a metaphor for detonating a bomb, which corresponds closely to the CBO's assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in this metaphor, kind of like how Dodd-Frank was a Hiroshima, metaphorically-speaking, but not literally the same thing. Anyhow, too bad we can't do much talking right now, or even writing op-ed pieces about whatever comes to mind.
"Bonus anecdote." About "a famous European leader," who "looked crestfallen" after learning that someone is always spying on him.
"Later, to an aide, he said, 'I guess the only way to guarantee my privacy now is to sit crouched in the bathtub, with a big blanket over my head, talking to myself.'"
This guy sounds a bit more Charlie Brown than Jacques Chirac, more Bed-Stuy hipster party, than Upper West Side gala.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Tom Friedman Is the Walrus, Part III
There's nothing like a United Nations appearance by a world leader to provide some Friedalicious metaphors. Even Tom agrees: "For anyone who enjoys a good metaphor, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations has been a field day for sheep and wolves." Why they couldn't schedule their field days separately, I'm not sure, but it is nice that they get to go to the U.N. Headquarters instead of sitting in class all day long, even if it's a Crips and Bloods situation in the end.
Let's get to the point: "there’s only one relevant question: Is Iran content to be a big North Korea or does it aspire to be a Persian China?" I'm not up on my cat breeds, but I think those have some golden, fluffy hair or something?
Then we discover that North Korea keeps its people "on a permanent low-calorie diet of both food and information." Just wait till they figure out the information carbs thing! They'll go on a Todd Akin diet or something.
And apparently Iran's Revolutionary Guards "never want to see an American embassy in Tehran." Hm, that rings a bell for some reason. Maybe I should google "American embassy in Tehran" and see if anything pops up. Eh, probably nothing important.
Also, "China’s leaders are not Boy Scouts either." So there goes my mental image of Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin in Boy Scout uniforms. "Yet we’ve found a stable, mutually beneficial relationship with Beijing as 'frenemies.'" I guess I'm not as current on my International Relations terminology as I should be. So the U.S.-China relationship can be classified as "frenemies with mutual benefits."
But, more importantly, Iran still has to "decide if it really is a China in Persian clothing — or something like that." I think he even confused himself there.
Let's get to the point: "there’s only one relevant question: Is Iran content to be a big North Korea or does it aspire to be a Persian China?" I'm not up on my cat breeds, but I think those have some golden, fluffy hair or something?
Then we discover that North Korea keeps its people "on a permanent low-calorie diet of both food and information." Just wait till they figure out the information carbs thing! They'll go on a Todd Akin diet or something.
And apparently Iran's Revolutionary Guards "never want to see an American embassy in Tehran." Hm, that rings a bell for some reason. Maybe I should google "American embassy in Tehran" and see if anything pops up. Eh, probably nothing important.
Also, "China’s leaders are not Boy Scouts either." So there goes my mental image of Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin in Boy Scout uniforms. "Yet we’ve found a stable, mutually beneficial relationship with Beijing as 'frenemies.'" I guess I'm not as current on my International Relations terminology as I should be. So the U.S.-China relationship can be classified as "frenemies with mutual benefits."
But, more importantly, Iran still has to "decide if it really is a China in Persian clothing — or something like that." I think he even confused himself there.
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