Progressive Politics and Chairman Mao

I wonder how many people have considered how influential Chairman Mao has been in our colleges, among our educators and their students. I know a lot of my friends have been somewhat baffled at how kids from even conservative backgrounds end up throwing burning chairs at windows and jumping and beating demonstrators, speakers at campuses and trying to intimidate those that disagree with them.

It is difficult for many to pin down how we lost a generation to liberalism, but I believe if we take a look at everyone's favorite Chinese Revolutionary, we can begin to understand a little better how we ended up with a class struggle/racial struggle/revolution in this country being fueled by our campuses and their progressive liberal professors and their students who act as their arm outside the classroom. Well, we gotta start somewhere, so let's start here. Mao wrote in "The Orientation of the Youth Movement":

“Our young intellectuals and students must go among the workers and peasants, who make up 90% of the population, and mobilize and organize them. Without this main force of workers and peasants, we cannot win the fight against imperialism and feudalism, we cannot win it by relying only on the contingent of young intellectuals and students. Therefore, the young intellectuals and students throughout the country must unite with the broad masses of workers and peasants and become one with them, and only then can a mighty force be created...But the intellectuals will accomplish nothing if they fail to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants. ”

In case that comes off as confusing, let me see if I can boil this down a little. Essentially, Mao is saying that in order for a proper social revolution to happen, you have to have 3 basic groups: 1) Intellectuals
2) Students, and 3) The working class.peasants. Now think about this... The intellectuals are our university professors and progressive politicians, they educate the student class, which once indoctrinated, moves into the working class, the broad masses. They demonstrate, recruit, and infiltrate society. I know, I know... This sounds very...um... conspiracy theorist... but hey, some conspiracies are true! Think about what we are seeing across the country. Soros paid activists, the wall street revolters, the Never Trumpers and BLM are all rooted in socialism/communism.

I believe what we are in the midst of, is a political revolution. That's where it starts. Every revolution has to rely heavily on the youth to make it work. It's from there that they integrate into what Mao refers to as the three parts: The workers, peasants and soldiers where physical revolution begins. Mao continues by warning about intellectuals as being opportunists and not being able to trust them, because of this, and their tendencies towards leftism and anarchism.

And this, is, I believe where we are today. We have had intellectuals teaching our children and they have moved towards Identity politics, political correctness and anarchism. The "rule of law" is no longer respected by the left, and political correctness is the law of the day. It is in essence, anarchism, self governed societies... Government is bad, laws are bad, law enforcers are the devil in this view, so revolution is their next logical step. Mao uses conservatives to steer clear of anarchism in the larger picture because it desire to overthrow all government, but uses it to help overthrow "imperial" or "feudal" (ie: Democratic) government.

What happens in the midst of this (I believe this is what is happening in our country right now) is that you have to tow the "party line", in order to be accepted. You have to accept the progressive agenda or you are a fascist, a Nazi, a racist, entitled, bigoted, misogynistic, or horror of horrors... A Christian... There are many more, but the truth is this: There is a script, a set cult-like response (some call it a party-line) that progressives follow, and deviation from it means exclusion from the herd. You become an outcast, a pariah worse than a leper. It is a philosophy of multiculturalism that destroys creativity and individualism because you cannot, just like in Mao's revolutionary China, speak out against it, or you are shunned. You are deplorable. If you stand against a culture (say the culture of Islam because you believe it demeans women and abuses them, or suppresses free thought), you are labeled racist and archaic. There is a failure to nuance positions, beliefs and ideals. There is no distinguishing between multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity. America has not been a multicultural country at it's heart. Sure cultures subsist within it, but at it's heart, it is a melting pot. Cultures are absorbed into American culture, not segregated into many separate subcultures competing for dominance. Historically, when immigrants came, they adopted America and became citizens. Multi-ethnic, not cultural. Never in the history of America have we experienced a cultural segregation as we have today.

Progressive politics is an ideology that is antithetical to free thought and expression. They fight against the very things that they claim to champion and divide rather than unite. At its heart, progressive politics, while their agenda might be slightly different (or maybe not) from Chairman Mao's, holds to the same philosophical underpinnings. They abandon the epistemological (epistemology = How do I know what I know) underpinnings of what our country was founded on (outlined in the constitution), and adopts instead a fluid epistemology that say "every man can do what is right in their own eyes", because they hold to an existential philosophy that is rooted in doing what you **feel** is right as opposed to what you **know** is right. You might read this and think I am crazy. You may be right, but it is something to think about...

Drunk as a Skunk...

This has been an interesting year for not only our country, but the world as a whole. Not so many years ago, we were enjoying a relative time of peace and stability, particularly in America. Even when war broke out, we experienced a kind of national pride and respect that made one proud to be American... But something changed. There has been a paradigm shift in the country in the last 10-12 years. I'd like to put it all on Obama, but the truth is, it began before that. Maybe it was the sustained war that seemed to drag on and on, with no clear end in sight. Maybe it was seeing our kids come home changed. Maybe it was a tanking economy and shrinking wages. Heck, maybe it was all of it. I don't quite know. What I do know is that things have changed in this country and around the world. Global liberalism has taken root. open borders, bankrupt nations and politicians with immeasurable power, not derived from the people, but from within their own organizations. It has resulted in an ever growing corruption in government, and politicians are drunk.

This election in America has been an interesting one. Why? Because we now have a president who has never been in politics before and he is in a giant swamp filled with power hungry politicians. Except something has begun to change yet again across this globe. I've said it before, the people are tired of business as usual. What has come to light as a result is this: Politicians are drunk with power, and the recent elections and votes not only in America, but worldwide have left them experiencing withdrawal. We (the people) are fed up with open borders and globalism. Brexit in Britain is proof of it, as is the election of President Trump. Denmark's Anti-immigration party is now the 2nd largest in Denmark. We want borders. Why? Let me put it to you in this way: Why do you lock your car in the parking lot, or lock your front door? Is it because everyone in the neighborhood is a criminal, or everyone coming out of Target want to steal your car? No, it's the realization that there *MAY* be someone like that out there. So we do it as a a precaution. This is why so many of us are in favor of a travel ban, in favor of a wall (it will only keep the honest people out, right? But just the thought of a crackdown has already reduced illegal immigration by 40%), in favor of a national identity.

Here's the truth of the national identity thing too. Those who are most drunk on their power are trying to destroy that. To reform it into something foreign to us. Identity is important. I identify as many things... Irish, Italian, American (most of all), a Marine, Father, Husband. To remove identity is to remove something that sits at the very heart of what we are as humans. Labels are important, it is not enough to just say we are all human. We were made to name things, to classify them. We are Americans for a reason. We left other places to come here for a reason. If you remove our identity as a nation, you strip the nation of who and what it is. We are a nation of legal immigrants and real refugees. Our laws are in place to help, not hurt.

And here's the rub. Those power drunk folks who are trying to make laws for us and legislate are trying to remove those laws. For some reason they forgot that boundaries are not only in place to keep things out, but also keep things in. Let me give an example: When my kids were little, they were allowed to play in the backyard without me sitting there all the time. Why? Because the fence kept them in. The border provided a measure of safety for them. Sure, it wouldn't stop someone hell-bent on breaking in, but there was a measure of protection there. Walls do that. So do laws. Even many of the seemingly stupid ones. Ones like the travel ban that say "if your country is unstable, if it is producing large amounts of terrorists, you need to stay home and not come here". Our laws are for us and not everyone else in the world. That is why we are unique.

This is what heartens me now... Those who are drunk with power and going through their withdrawal are showing their true selves. These leopards can't really hide their spots anymore. Their children are protesting in colleges across the nation, they are funding them, because they don't work. They are holding up laws and orders that are put in place to protect them, but they are more concerned with currying favors and winning demographics that they are willing to sacrifice everything for more power. They pedal the soft bigotry of low expectations for minority groups by providing them with special treatment instead of equal treatment. They do more disservice to them in the long run by this than help. They are handing out fish without teaching them how to catch a fish.  They encourage poverty to fund their coffers of social justice, they fuel a quiet racial hatred by creating special categories for people instead of putting them on equal footing. They encourage entitlement by giving things away without requiring anything in return.

And here's the interesting thing. America has had enough. The world has had enough. We want pride in our countries. We want people to earn what they have. We want our laws to be obeyed and to be safe, without fear of some refugee bringing terror to our soil (remember that the Boston bombers were refugees as were the 9-11 terrorists). We want to know that those we have elected have stopped drinking in their power and are now sober, serving the people instead of themselves.