The Left must have an enemy, somebody to fight, some entity to excoriate, some group that they must convince the masses are trying to destroy their lives, a group that must be obliterated in order to save the “revolution,” the country, the world. In America, enemy number one is Donald Trump, the most hated man on the planet. But, in communist China, in the years after “liberation” (1950-52), who were Mao Zedong’s enemies? Who had to be annihilated? Well, pretty much anybody who didn’t agree with him or that he didn’t like:
“‘Our general policy, Mao [said], ‘is to eliminate the remnant Nationalist forces, the secret agents and the bandits, overthrow the landlord class, liberate Taiwan and Tibet and fight imperialism to the end.’” (Frank Dikötter, The Tragedy of Liberation, Chapter 5, “The Great Terror”; All subsequent quotes are from the same source.)...snip...
Besides Nationalists, Mao’s enemies were anybody he didn’t like, anybody who might oppose him as a dictator, and any piece of land that didn’t belong to him that he wanted.
How to gain these victories? By debate, persuasion, and reason? No. By propaganda, lies, and force. It is the only way Leftists can ever gain control of the masses because most people want absolutely nothing to do with their horrid policies. So, terror and mass murder became the—literal—order of the day:
“Mao handed down a killing quota as a rough guide for action. The norm, he felt, was one per thousand, a ratio he was willing to adjust to the particular circumstances of each region. His subordinates kept track of local killing rates like bean counters, occasionally negotiating for a higher quota. In May 1951 Guangxi province, for instance, was told to kill more, even though a rate of 1.63 per thousand had already been achieved.
A quota. “Kill this many, innocent or not.” And as we saw in earlier columns, innocence or guilt—or age—didn’t matter to his subordinates. They had to kill or be killed:
“Villages, counties, and provinces emulated each other, preferring to kill too many rather than too few – and risk being purged as ‘rightists’... Thousands were silently executed in order to fulfill and surpass the quota.”
Note that while Communist China is here the example, the same thing happened in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Cambodia, Nazi Germany (yes, the Nazis were socialists just like the Communists) and anywhere else that the Left has taken power. If we allow it, the same is in store for these united States. Believe that the fascist far Left is already drawing up lists of who to throw against the wall when the revolution comes. Gentle readers are urged to read Lewis's article, and of course, if you have the time, read parts I and II as well. It will show you the horrors of living under a socialist system. The first thing they do is change the meaning of words and lie, such that they promise a Utopia, but deliver death and destruction. The WEF promises you will own nothing (true) and you will like it (grossly false. You will eat bugs, and live lives of serfdom to the state. When they are through with you they will kill you. Maybe they will kill you just for complaining.)
This leads us to the other post today, by Jeffrey Folks at the American Thinker entitled Nazis On The Left? I am not sure why the question mark. The fact that the Fascists are one step away from the Communists has been thoroughly documented. Communists are international socialists, whereas Fascists are National socialists. But the modus operandi is still the same. There is no gentler form of the Left.
Riley Gaines is a former NCAA female swimmer who has spoken out against the so-called right of males to compete as females. In response, she has been attacked, verbally and physically, by transgender activists and their supporters. Recently, after speaking at San Francisco State University, she was forced to barricade herself in a room while she was assaulted by a mob of transgender rights protesters. According to Gaines, police in San Francisco "failed miserably" to defend her and stated, according to Gaines, that "it was not ideal for them to be seen as anything other than an ally to this community."
Gaines was attacked simply for describing the injustice of having to compete against a male swimmer and to share a locker room with a male. Those are commonsense statements that most Americans agree with: 20 states now block males from competing against females in sports, and in recent polling, only 30% of Americans supported the "right" of transgenders to compete in women's sports at the high school and college levels.
The Riley Gaines protest is just the latest example of the left's resorting to violence in place of peaceful discussion. Violent attacks on conservatives and on anyone who stands in their way have become commonplace, and these attacks are a grave danger to our democracy....snip...
For many years, blacks, gays, transgenders, and other identity groups have protested, for the most part peacefully, but now their protests have become something else. Leftists always believed they were right and others wrong, but now they seem to think others must be silenced. This is just one step away from the final stage, which is the belief that others have no right to live.
Riley Gaines was not by any means the only victim of violent left-wing protest. An anti-Israel protest in January 2022 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor was equally disturbing. That protest was a blatant, insensitive call for "Intifada" and, indeed, genocide, stressing as it did the purported "solution" to the "evil" of Israel, as many on the left now see it. The use of the word "solution" by protesters was chilling since it echoed Hitler's "final solution": the extermination of Jews and others including Slavs, gypsies, and the disabled.
And the use of that term "solution" raises the question of how far the left is willing to go. Is it just Jews living in Israel or those who question transgender "rights" or those who wish to end affirmative action or all those who voted for or supported Trump? Does it also include those who support the police, those who defend the Second Amendment, and all who practice Christianity? Every communist takeover, whether in Russia, China, Cuba, or Cambodia, has carried out deadly reprisals against ideological opponents. Recent events in the U.S. are in line with this history.
I have actually personally heard people on the Left talking this way. They wouldn't personally have killed anyone, but they also wouldn't have objected to the state murdering people they disagreed with. For one thing, they are universally atheist, so do not believe that we were created in the image of God. Indeed, they look at Christians and Jews as being stupid for believing what the Bible says. And if they don't believe in a Creator, they certainly don't believe that said Creator granted any rights. And therefore they believe that whatever rights an individual may have are granted by the state, and can be recinded at any time. Thus their disdain for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The chant of Pride Parades, that "we are coming for your children" should actually be that "we are coming for YOU and your children. Whether we like it or not, we are in a war in which the Left is the aggressor. Sooner or later, we will have to engage.
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