China is a growing threat to US influence and everyone should be concerned.

The simple fact of the matter is that while congressional democrats and other urban elites don’t give a damn about our country, the current administration and its supporters have been working on eroding US power with such intense ferocity that it borders on the psychopathic.

Our glorious Bush administration, for example, just threw into place a 2 year ban on new solar cell farms on government land in the West. Of course, the government owns the majority of land out there. The Bush administration appears maniacally intent on crushing our domestic solar power industry just at the time that it is reaching the ability to be one of the most cost-effective energy sources. Just wait: with all the electric cars that will be coming on the market soon will create a current draw that will lead to various brownouts and price hikes, all of which will be used for as a convenient excuse to demand more drilling. Drilling off our coasts, slurping down the last of our reserves of our most precious commodity, all for the chance of making a few bucks. The oil companies that control and fund the conservative think-tanks and media will have everyone convinced that this is our only salvation.

We have no energy strategy in this country, we have no industrial strategy, we have no research strategy, and Bush and co have made absolutely sure we have no space strategy.

Simply put, you cannot be a supporter of this administration and claim to be interested in the United States’ long-term strategic interests.