Booting Leftists Out of Our Lives, Both Foreign and Domestic

What is the difference between a real government and a criminal gang?

The answer may not be as much as you think, but the difference is important. First and foremost, a legitimate government is one that governs at the (informed) consent of the people. That means that the people actually voted for that government with fully informed consent, and without any shenanigans or rigging. A legitimate government provides equal justice under its laws. No special favors for the rulers, or special interests. A legitimate government recognizes basic human rights such as our Bill of Rights, and scrupulously protects those rights.

I realize that I have thus condemned our own government, for it has fallen far short of the ideals prescribed by our Constitution. When people lie about themselves and their intention to get elected, they can not assert that they were fairly elected. In lying, they denied voters due informed consent. Of course, people lie, particulary Marxists, because if the told you the truth, that they wanted power and riches and they would steal it from you, turn your children against you, and kill you the moment you were of no use to them, you wouldn't vote for them, would you? I would hope not.

So it is that while we are in the struggle internally to boot out the Communists, Fascists, Progressives, and assorted other Marxists from our midst, domestic enemies all, Civis Americanus points to a foreign enemy at the American Thinker in Chinese Communists are Communist Bandits or Gognfei. In this article he makes clear that the Chinese Communist Party, the ChiComs, are the enemy of every civilized country. But at the same time, he draws a distinction between the Chinese people, who suffer under this gangster government, and the ChiComs, who were never elected in any meaningful sense. I have been as guilty of lingusitically conflating the two as anybody. But they are not the same.

It is important during wartime to have a name for the enemy that does not include ordinary people who have the misfortune to live under that enemy's rule. Colonel Paul Linebarger's Psychological Warfare said explicitly that it is unwise to define the enemy too widely. When General George Patton gave his famous speech, for example, he proclaimed "the Nazis are the enemy" rather than "the German people are the enemy." Most German people lived in terror of the Nazis, and it is in fact alleged credibly that Hitler was willing to sacrifice Germany itself to achieve his personal ambitions. It is a historical fact that he sent hundreds of thousands of Germans to their deaths on the Eastern Front and would not allow them to retreat from untenable positions like Stalingrad. The ChiComs, who similarly view their own people's lives as expendable as anybody else's, threw human waves at South Korean and American positions during the Korean War in the hope that we would run out of bullets before they ran out of soldiers.

It is similarly important to avoid saying "the Chinese are the enemy" because there is more than enough anti-Asian bias in this country as there is, with "enough" being exactly zero. Chinese-Americans left their outhouse country as ruled by the Chinese communists (a.k.a., ChiComs) or previously by autocrats, the same way our own ancestors left equally undesirable homelands. Unless we're Native Americans, we or our ancestors didn't come here because the Old World was a great place for us to live. If, for example, you were a Pole or a Jew under tsarist rule, you probably viewed Russia as an outhouse country that was a very good place to be from. "May God bless and keep the tsar… far away from us!" The ordinary Russian was not usually the biggest problem, but the tsar and his government were. Taiwanese, Hong Kong Chinese, and the billion or so mainland Chinese who still have the misfortune to live under communist rule are not the problem either. General Secretary Xi Jinping and his fellow Gongfei (communist bandits) are the problem.

The ChiComs are a ganster government, a terrorist organization, or Communist bandits. But it is not just the Chinese people that the ChiComs are threatening. They also are threatening Japan, Australia, Taiwan and with their Belt and Road program, many African nations and South American nations. The ChiComs even are in control of the Panama Canal, which shows the utter stupidity of Jimmy Carter, arguably the worst President ever.

Well, besides getting the Left out of power at ALL levels of American society, what else can we do to stop the ChiComs? As it turns out, the Chinese economy is not good. Big surprise, right? Their economy is suffering from the same problems our own is, the idiocy of the Left. The best thing we can do is refuse to buy anything made in China.

The ChiCom Gongfei are powerful only because short-sighted American business "leaders," the kind whose eye is never on the job but always on the dollar, offshored American manufacturing jobs in exchange for cheap labor. They got what they paid for in shoddy and often counterfeit active pharmaceutical intermediates, contaminated heparin, counterfeit semiconductor devices, and counterfeit N-95 respirators that put their users at risk during the COVID-19 epidemic. The only difference between the organized criminals who sold bootleg alcohol during the Roaring Twenties and the Gongfei seems to be, in fact, that Al Capone and those like him tried to assure the quality of their products so their customers would keep coming back, while the Gongfei do not care if they kill their customers with shoddy products.

The problem is that the American consumer has been conditioned by advertisers and marketers to pay made-in-America prices for ChiCom-made trash. Consumers need to be educated that placement of a famous athlete's name or picture on a ChiCom-made shirt you could get from a big box store for ten dollars does not make it worth eighty or ninety dollars. Placement of a famous brand name on ChiCom-made clothing you can buy for twenty dollars from a big box store does not make them worth the two hundred dollars on up that some upscale stores charge for them. If the overpriced product says only "Imported," you can be pretty sure the seller is ashamed to say where it is imported from. There is nothing the Chinese Communists make that we cannot make in the United States, and we need to get the Gongfei out of our lives as quickly as possible.