A few posts ago the DSBPI wrote about the space race as an example of a technology developed due to non-market forces. In a different post, we wrote about the election year bashing of China. Today's editorial in the Wall Street Journal tied it together in DSBPI's mind:

"Perhaps we fear that if we don't keep going forward we'll lose the knack and begin the long retrograde crawl back to the primordial ooze. If the U.S. decides to give up that ambition [going to space], sooner or later some other country will take it up - perhaps China."

And the bogeyman returns.