How to Make America Great Again

Lessons From Shenzhen, China

"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."

—Maya Angelou

45th American President, Donald Trump:

“You’re going to be so proud of your country… You’re going to be so proud of your President, and I don’t care about that. But you are going to be so proud of your country. Because we’re going to turn it around, and we’re going to start winning again.  

We’re going to win so much, we’re going to win at every level:   

We’re going to win economically,

We’re going to win with the economy,

We’re going to win with military,

We’re going to win with healthcare and for our veterans,

We’re going to win with every single facet,

We’re going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning!

And you’ll say please, please, it’s too much winning, we can’t take it anymore. Mister President, it’s too much! 

And I’ll say No it isn’t, we have to keep winning, we have to win MOREEEEEE, we’re gonna win MOREEEEE.”

—45th American President, Donald Trump

Today, Shenzhen, China is one of the richest and largest cities in the world.

It’s a center of wealth, power, and prestige.  

A productive economy of manufacturing, construction, software, hardware, technology startups, and a port enriched by container shipping has attracted a symbiotic ecosystem of finance, medicine, real estate, tourism, retail merchandise, along with every kind of creative endeavor — dancing, music, painting, architecture, photography. 

Foreign analysts have nicknamed Shenzhen as “the Silicon Valley of China”. Twelve million people live in the city, and sixty million people live in the region which is a dense urban sprawl — like Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One, a city which blends into the surrounding regions so closely that they are impossible to separate. For all intents and purposes, the city and the region are a single overlapping, entangled organism. 

Every major company in China has branches in Shenzhen. 

Tencent, Huawei, DJI, ZTE, Hasee, Hytera, OnePlus, and BYD Company are some of the largest corporations based in the city of Shenzhen. This is also where the famous Foxconn factories with suicide nets are located, in company towns where the labor is so crowded, exhausting, dehumanizing, and low-paid that workers feel trapped and cannot find a reason to live. These grueling factories replicate the same kind of impoverished, desperate conditions which Charles Dickens wrote about during the ending phase of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. 

It’s the best, and worst of times… the age of wisdom and foolishness… the epoch of belief and incredulity… the Season of Light and Darkness… the spring of hope clashing against the winter of despair… factory workers in Shenzhen are killing themselves while lawyers and doctors and engineers graduate from elite academia, while billionaires party and upload selfies to Instagram. 

Some notable statistics about Shenzhen, China:

• Eighth-largest financial center in the world.

• Seventh-highest number of Fortune Global 500 headquarters of any city

• Fifth-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world

• Second-largest number of skyscrapers of any city in the world

• Nineteenth-largest scientific research output of any city in the world

Civilization’s excess, and incest, and finesse has all been compressed into a single place in China — a specially appointed economic zone. 

But it wasn’t always this way. 

A few decades ago, nobody knew anything about the city of Shenzhen, and there was no reason for them to.

In 1980, Shenzhen, China was a small, impoverished fishing village with a total of 30,000 residents. People who came to Shenzhen were refugees fleeing from the Communist party, and they would sail boats or even swim across the water to the British protectorate of Hong Kong. 

Deng Xiaoping changed this. 

After the death of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping seized power, and he chose to back away from the butchery, famines, and failures of Communism. In May 1980, the city of Shenzhen, China was chosen to be a grand experiment where free markets would be permitted to operate, and the district’s government would agree to take its boot off the throat of Chinese entrepreneurs. Deng Xiaoping reintroduced the forbidden taboo of capitalism into a Communist police state, and he used all sorts of convoluted intellectual justifications to mask what was happening. He referenced Karl Marx, and claimed he was fulfilling the prophecy of Communism with an argument reminiscent of George W. Bush’s 2008 line, “I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system”. 

The “socialist market economy” soon emerged. 

A bold idea took hold that, “all workers should not be paid the same, but rather, paid according to their productivity”. 

After the purges and massacres of the previous decades in China, everyone in the Party and the general public was too frightened to mention that this was more or less a restoration of the same economic principles which had predated Mao Zedong. 

Deng Xiaoping announced a new plan of “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”... in other words, a complete abandonment of Socialist economics reframed as a return to Chinese identity. The Communist Party would retain control of political authority and military power, while allowing business to operate unobstructed in the city of Shenzhen. 

Deng’s philosophy was popularized by the phrase, “Let some people get rich first”. 

Location, location, location.

The port city was an ideal location for shipping cargo. Convenient access to the South China Sea enabled rapid economic development. Ambitious families flocked to Shenzhen. Entrepreneurs gathered swiftly. Money poured in. Almost immediately, the city transformed into an economic, industrial, and cultural powerhouse. 

In 1980, Shenzhen had 30,000 residents. Now there are twelve million people living in the city. 

The same principles could be applied to America.

Today, America is a dying empire. Manufacturing is gone. Multiculturalism demands access to every public space. 

“He described how easy it was to build a factory in China, and said that it was almost impossible to do so these days in America, largely because of regulations and unnecessary costs.”

—Walter Issacson, Steve Jobs

Imagine an American version of the Shenzhen miracle… a small town chosen for a grand experiment… a tiny port city which was positioned to grow powerful… a place where the old rights of free association and discrimination could be restored… a tax haven where there were no direct taxes of any kind, and entrepreneurs were encouraged to build real products, to invest money with the expectation of consistent returns… 

One small town exempt from ordinary laws…

Imagine an American company that looked like NASA’s Apollo 11 mission in 1969, when humans first landed on the moon… a room crowded with the world’s smartest white men… Imagine a legal and industrial environment where one hundred white men could work together on a large corporate project, without being sued into bankruptcy for the crime of Racism and Discrimination.

Imagine an America where you could hire the best employee available for the job, rather than being harassed and penalized and “nudged” with subtle pressures to hire a candidate of the correct gender, skin color, or sexual preference.  

The Trojan Horse of Civil Rights Law forces every business in America to arrange a workforce that looks like a multicultural advertising campaign… there are supposed to be an evenly-balanced ratio of blacks, browns, women, lesbians, gays, Men Wearing Dresses, and sexual perverts of every flavor. Productivity has been ferociously suppressed. 

Consider Shenzhen.

Let’s call our new plan, “Progress with American characteristics”. 

An escape from the dead ideology which governs the status quo.

An End to the Civil Rights Regime... and a Repeal of the 16th Amendment.

Elimination of feminism, where men are free to work and be productive in a masculine company, aggressively and ferociously competing to win against their peers.

Freedom and free markets could transform America. 

One small economic zone, exempted from American taxation and diversity quotas and political regulations, could attract the world’s best talent, accelerating technological innovation, building rapid fortunes for brilliant young men. And this example would illustrate the failures of American progressive orthodoxy, the delusions of the Woke civic mythology that demands obedience to an ideology of sadism and ritual humiliations. 

One small economic zone, where young men and women could get married and build families at the start of their careers, rather than being fed into IQ-shredder cities where their youth is wasted on behalf of corporate employers who don’t appreciate or reward this intense sacrifice… vast faceless companies which don’t even remember the names of their employees, and reduce every worker to a cog in a machine, efficiently stripping any unproductive variance from the labor pool.  

Consider Shenzhen.

Dream of a better future!

Dream of a restored America, prosperous and strong, no longer trapped in permanent gradual entropy. 

Yes we Can!