American Hard Left Progressives and Mao's Cultural Revolution

Our condolences and Prayers to everyone touched by the terrorist attack in Barcelona on Thursday. We are with you. • • • THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT CHARLOTTESVILLE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. The President has stood his ground and we all salute him for it. He is right to condemn the violence that marks both the extreme Right and the extreme Left. These mindless groups of anarchist thugs have no place in civil society. • • • PEOPLE ARE FINALLY SEEING TRUMP'S POINT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF CONFEDERATE STATUES AND MONUMENTS. A CBS poll published on Thursday shows that 78% of Republicans said Trump did the right thing, while 46% of Independents agreed, but only 25% of Democrats agreed. • Restore American Glory posted an article on Tuesday that says : "President Trump made a crucial point on Tuesday afternoon in that press conference. You know, the one everyone is saying proves he’s a white supremacist sympathizer or whatever. He did it when discussing the root cause of why many of the protesters had chosen Charlottesville as their place to speak out." • President Trump said : "Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So, this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop?” • The media ignores this part of the press conference -- because they want to keep the focus on their narrative, which is that Trump just revealed himself to be some kind of secret Nazi (a narrative difficult to sell since he condemned Nazis and white nationalists in unambiguous terms the day before), and, because they really don’t want to talk about that singular, disturbing question : 'Where does it stop?' " • • • WHERE DOES ERASING HISTORY STOP?? Confederate statues, monuments and symbols have been under relentless attack since the horrible massacre in Charleston, South Carolina two years ago. Because the killer in that case happened to be photographed with a Confederate flag, the American Maoists were off and running. Today, in light of the Charlottesville violence, Democrats (and many conservatives) are renewing their calls to tear all of these statues and flags down, remove them to museums, or simply get rid of them altogether. • Okay -- what if America agrees and all Confederate symbols are wiped off the map. At that moment, President Trump’s question -- "Where does it stop?" becomes even more important. If current cultural norms are followed, most of the world's historical culture would end up on the garbage heap. America's Founding Fathers were great thinkers -- the most successful political and social revolutionaries since the classical Greek period. America does not honor and preserve their words, works and statues because they owned slaves. America does not look to them to conform to today's culture. Judging them by current cultural standards makes no sense. We judge them by the political values they incorporated into the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights that form the forst 10 amendments to the Constitution. America's history -- and much more importantly her still-valid political foundation would be lost if all traces of the Founders were to be scrubbed from American history. Are we supposed to tear down all this history because Maoist Progressives insist? Why? What does it accomplish? • The sad truth is that the Progressive hard Left of the Democrat Party knows exactly what it’s doing. The extreme fringes of the Progressive movement say it -- they believe this country was founded on evil. They believe the Constitution is evil. They believe capitalism is evil. They believe white people are evil. And they are going to keep tearing down American history so it is easier for them to remake America in their own chaotic, Marxist / Maoist image. • So, when conservatives throw up their hands and say, “Why ARE we defending these Confederate statues anyway? Why don't we just destroy them all and get it over with?" the answer is to ask Trump's question -- "Where does it stop?" • President Trump on Thursday refused to back down from critics who have ripped him apart for failing to condemn protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, doubling down on his belief that the statues should stay and questioning if the Progressive movement would turn on America's Founding Fathers next. Trump tweeted : "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" • Following the weekend violence in Charlottesville, the city of Baltimore took down four Confederate statues -- sneaking around in the middle of the night on Wednesday to do it. A day earlier, several protesters in North Carolina pulled down a Confederate statue. Four people were eventually arrested in that episode. • Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, praised President Donald Trump for his statements about the rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia. Falwell Jr. said he was "so proud" of Trump in a Wednesday tweet : "Finally a leader in WH. Jobs returning, N Korea backing down, bold truthful stmt about #charlottesville tragedy.So proud of @realdonaldtrump." • Historian Arthur Herman, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC and author of several books, including "Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior," lives in Charlottesville. He describes what happened in Charlottesville : "This spring Charlottesville’s ultra-liberal city council voted to remove an equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee that’s been standing in a park in downtown Charlottesville since 1924, and to change the park’s name from Lee Park to Emancipation Park....in twelve of the fourteen years we have lived there the Lee statue, or the Stonewall Jackson statue nearby, never raised a progressive eyebrow. But after leftwing groups like Black Lives Matter began targeting Confederate Civil War monuments for vandalism and destruction in the aftermath of Ferguson, our city council decided it could score some points with BLM types by having the statue removed -- and possibly avoid a violent confrontation with those same leftwing extremist groups. Bad call. What the city council did was to create a cause for every crackpot Neo-Nazi and KKK group looking for some free publicity to rally around, and an opportunity for every crackpot leftist group on Saturday, to get into the action." Herman described the weekend situation : "The sense that something truly awful was going to happen started on Friday night, with the bizarre torchlight vigil by white supremacist groups at the University of Virginia eerily reminiscent of Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. The city council tried desperately to move the scene of the white supremacist rally scheduled for Saturday away from downtown, but a judge on an ACLU appeal blocked that move. The council then yanked the rally permit, but it was too little too late. Also by now Governor Terry McAuliffe had gotten into the act, issuing warnings to citizens to stay away from the rally site and flooding the zone with hundreds of Virginia state police in riot gear. Those state police then did nothing as the Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and assorted neo-Communist extremists began arriving that morning in their own riot gear, including helmets and shields, and began flailing away at the neo-Nazi extremists who responded in kind. It’s still not clear who ordered the police to 'stand down;' perhaps no one did. Perhaps they simply did not want to appear on YouTube or the nightly news beating up a demonstrator, whether black or white, Brown or Red. They only finally moved in when Governor McAuliffe declared 'a state of emergency,' and only after a car driven by a white supremacist killed a young woman, Heather Heyer, after plowing into the crowd of rioters -- rioters who should never been allowed to have contact with each other, let alone allowed to battle it out in the streets of Charlottesville. Meanwhile, two state troopers were dead after their helicopter crashed....they were two men simply doing their duty in a futile mission set by a do-nothing governor whose attention was focused on getting applause from the media, just like our mayor and city council -- and just like the commentators afterwards who have worked hard to turn these deaths into an indictment of Donald Trump. A governor with any sense of honor and integrity would resign after a debacle like this; so would a mayor. But of course McAuliffe and Signer won’t. They are symptoms, not causes, of an American political culture that has become deeply sick." • • • DESTROYING CONFEDERATE STATUES AND MONUMENTS IS REMINISCENT OF THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION. The Guardian laid the Cultural Revolution out in a May 2016 Guardian Briefing. I am excerpting it here. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong’s bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party. Mao’s decision to launch the “revolution” in May 1966 is now widely interpreted as an attempt to destroy his enemies by unleashing the people on the party and urging them to purify its ranks. When the mass mobilization kicked off party newspapers depicted it as an epochal struggle that would inject new life into the socialist cause : “Like the red sun rising in the east, the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is illuminating the land with its brilliant rays.” • In fact, the Cultural Revolution crippled the economy, ruined millions of lives and thrust China into 10 years of turmoil, bloodshed, hunger and stagnation. Gangs of students and Red Guards attacked people wearing “bourgeois clothes” on the street, “imperialist” signs were torn down and intellectuals and party officials were murdered or driven to suicide. After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression.” An official party reckoning described it as a catastrophe which had caused “the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic” in 1949. • Mao saw his political campaign as a way of reinvigorating the communist revolution by strengthening ideology and weeding out opponents. An early Mao directive stated : "Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road...so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system." Frank Dikötter, who wrote a book on the period, says Mao hoped his movement would make China the pinnacle of the socialist universe and turn him into “the man who leads planet Earth into communism.” But it was also an attempt by the elderly dictator, whose authority had been badly hit by the calamitous Great Famine of the 1950s, to reassert control over the party by obliterating enemies, real or imagined. Belgian scholar Pierre Ryckmans wrote : "“It was a power struggle waged... behind the smokescreen of a fictitious mass movement.” • In mid-May 1966, Communist Party chiefs in Beijing issued a document known as the “May 16 Notification”. It warned that the party had been infiltrated by counter-revolutionary “revisionists” who were plotting to create a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” On 1 June, the party’s official mouthpiece newspaper urged the masses to “clear away the evil habits of the old society” by launching an all-out assault on “monsters and demons.” Chinese students sprung into action, setting up Red Guard divisions in classrooms and campuses across the country. By August 1966 -- so-called Red August -- the mayhem was in full swing as Mao’s allies urged Red Guards to destroy the “four olds” -- old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture. Schools and universities were closed and churches, shrines, libraries, shops and private homes ransacked or destroyed as the assault on “feudal” traditions began. Gangs of teenagers in red armbands and military fatigues roamed the streets of cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Party officials, teachers and intellectuals also found themselves in the cross-hairs: they were publicly humiliated, beaten and in some cases murdered or driven to suicide after vicious “struggle sessions.” • Blood flowed as Mao ordered security forces not to interfere in the Red Guards’ work. Nearly 1,800 people lost their lives in Beijing in August and September 1966 alone. The chaos spread rapidly. Workers joined the fray and China was plunged into what historians describe as a state of virtual civil war, with rival factions battling it out in cities across the country. By late 1968 Mao realised his revolution had spiralled out of control. In a bid to rein in the violence he issued instructions to send millions of urban youth down to the countryside for “re-education.” He also ordered the army to restore order, effectively transforming China into a military dictatorship, which lasted until about 1971. As the army fought to bring the situation under control, the death toll soared. Between 1971 and the Cultural Revolution’s official end, in 1976, a semblance of normality returned to China. Historians believe somewhere between 500,000 and two million people lost their lives as a result of the Cultural Revolution. In the province of Guangxi where there were reports of mass killings and even cannibalism. Appalling acts of barbarity also occurred in Inner Mongolia where authorities unleashed a vicious campaign of torture against supposed separatists. • The lives of some of the Communist party’s most powerful figures were upended by the turbulence, including future leader Deng Xiaoping, who was purged in 1967, and Xi Zhongxun, the father of China’s current president, Xi Jinping, who was publicly humiliated, beaten and sent into exile. President Xi’s half-sister, Xi Heping, is said to have taken her own life after being persecuted. • In 1967, Red Guards laid siege to the Soviet, French and Indonesian embassies, torched the Mongolian ambassador’s car and hung a sign outside the British mission that read : “Crush British Imperialism!” One night, in late August, diplomats were forced to flee from the British embassy as it was ransacked and burned. Outside protesters chanted: “Kill! Kill!” • The Cultural Revolution’s official handbook was the Little Red Book, a pocket-sized collection of quotations from Mao that offered a design for Red Guard life. “Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory!” read one famous counsel. At the height of the Cultural Revolution, Little Red Book reading sessions were held on public buses and even in the skies above China, as air hostesses preached Mao’s words of wisdom to their passengers. During the 1960s, the Little Red Book is said to have been the most printed book on earth, with more than a billion copies printed. • Mao had hoped his revolutionary movement would turn China into a beacon of communism. But 50 years later, many believe it had the opposite effect, paving the way for China’s embrace of capitalism in the 1980s and its subsequent economic boom. • One experts says : “The party is guilty of three massive blows to the Chinese people: the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the destruction of the environment which is ongoing now and may in fact be more deadly that the other two in the long run.” • • • DEAR READERS, think about Mao's Cultural Revolution. There are many similarities to what is being attempted by the hard left of the Progressive Democrat Party and its Antifa and BLM storm troopers. That is why President Trump's question is so important -- and it is why the mainstream media propaganda arm of the Progressive cabal will not talk about it -- "Where does it stop?" • American Thinker wrote on Wednesday that it is receiving emails touting a November 4 revival of the 1971 “Days of Rage” -- an effort to shut down the country as a whole to force a change in government. One message, sent out over the name of an activist claiming to be named Carl Dix, declares : "We must build off of this resistance [Charlottesville] to act to end the nightmare of this fascist regime by taking to the streets on November 4th and staying in the streets to drive this regime from power. RefuseFascism.org is holding regional conferences to organize for doing this....we need to go from resistance to mobilizing to end the nightmare of the Trump/Pence regime. Right now these fascists, from Trump on down, are moving very quickly to hammer into place their fascist regime and this must be STOPPED. The organization Refuse Fascism has called for people to come into the streets and public squares and cities and towns across the country beginning on November 4 and stay in the streets day after day and night after night until the DEMAND is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!" • Sounds a lot like Mao's directives in 1966, doesn't it. And, President Trump was right when he said the threat comes from “many sides.” American Thinker says : "After the political failure of Obama, the collapse of Hillary, the cannibalism visited on Bernie and his followers, it’s apparent that the American left is a spent force, and this kind of political kabuki is all that remains for them. Clearly, the left has failed in the US, as they have everywhere else. Their plans have proved empty, their carefully structured systems have ossified to the point of paralysis, their pleas and promises are mere repetitions of rhetoric that was old in the 1930s. They have nothing to offer except violence, hatred, and eventual extinction. But they can still do a lot of damage as they go down the chute, keeping in mind that their descent may involve a process lasting decades." • We are entering a period, it seems, in which America is not dealing with routine university hot topics or summer antics from unemployed youth. This is a well-organiyzed and financed effort to destroy America. Undoubtedly, as the film said, there will be blood -- and havoc, mobs in the streets, black-dressed masked thugs, riots, property damage, and more -- Berkeley, Ferguson, and Baltimore all over again. And, of course, the mainstream media, academics, and power celebrities will be tweeting and CNN-ing, telling us to be ashamed of our past and our Constitution, and attacking us for condemning violence. • President Trump is a rock thus far. Support him. Tell him how much you appeciate his sacrifices for America. He will be in Phoenix next week, if you're in the neighborhood.