-- The American Cultural Revolution Underway
I lived through the Cultural Revolution in both China and the US
The Chinese have long feared the return of the Cultural Revolution, but few thought it would be reborn in America. As a Chinese intellectual who has experienced the scourge of the Left in China and understands the increasingly extreme leftist culture in the United States, it was not long before Barack Obama's "The Cultural Revolution" began to take hold in America. I found, back in the early days of the Obama administration, that the leftist culture in the United States shares the same DNA as that of the Cultural Revolution in China. For example, the Leftist culture would, in order to reconstruct historical memory, trumpet the deconstruction of history, and initiate the process of dismantling historical monuments and rewriting the historical status of Jefferson and General Lee by standards of identity (e.g., slave-ownership). These are not dissimilar to the Chinese Cultural Revolution terms of destroying the Four Olds and dismantling the historical relics. A number of individuals who are familiar with the Cultural Revolution in China are calling it the American Cultural Revolution, and if you are interested, you can read "Report on the American Cultural Revolution Movement (Chinese only)", an article that documents the feats of the American Cultural Revolution In the United States not reported by the mainstream media and unbeknownst to the majority of the general public.
The most important effect of Sanders' two candidacies is the de-homogenization of communism (socialism). As a result, this year, since the beginning of the Floyd protests on May 25, the Cultural Revolution, which had been a minor event, has been presenting itself in a very disturbing manner. The scene has unfolded in such a way that Americans are worried about losing control and the Chinese are very surprised. But I have written for several years that American politics was bound to come to this day. If we look at it from the perspective of globalization, ever since Secretary of State Dulles said that he wanted a peaceful evolution of the socialist countries, Since the revolutions of 1989 (dubbed Su-Dong-Bo, first characters of the Chinese translation for the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the Chinese word for waves)", a series of events took place: from the so-called color revolutions to the revival of socialist ideas in Europe and the United States, and finally to the devouring (albeit to different extents) of Europe and the United States by their respective home-grown Leftist movement. This is a huge research topic in itself, and the lessons to be learnt in the process are not unimportant.
From the age of ten, I experienced the Cultural Revolution in China. On several occasions I could only watch helplessly as possessions were taken after Red Guards raided my home. I also saw with my own eyes the dismantling of the Four Olds, the struggle sessions, the "enemies of the people" got paraded through the streets, the factional conflicts, and mass killings. Having seen all those, I find it necessary to compare the identical trait of the Cultural Revolution in China and that of the United States. Scholars in China and elsewhere are of the unanimous proposition that such catastrophic events as the Cultural Revolution could only happen in China, but I could see from the Cultural Revolution in China and the US version that the two share the same root. Both originated from the Marxist theory of violent revolution: smash the old world (capitalism) and create a new one. The difference was that the Cultural Revolution in China was initiated from the top by Mao Zedong with his power as the country's supreme leader; the Cultural Revolution in the United States, on the other hand, is a bottom-up spontaneous movement kick-started by the people after years of indoctrination. The democrats, in whichever states under their control, are fanning the flames.
Dismantling the Existing Law and Order
Here, it is necessary to introduce the classic Marxian theory that the proletariat must smash the old state apparatus. According to the Marxist (Leninist) interpretation, the state is the instrument by which one class rules over another. The implication is that the ruling class must establish a set of laws, institutions, and executive agencies, and only with these can the dominion be realized. The army, the police, the courts, the prisons and other organs of the dictatorship were all important components of the state apparatus. Therefore, the first step of a proletarian revolution would be to smash the old state apparatus and build a new one under its own control.
Mao Zedong deeply understood the essence of this theory and conveyed it in words that Chinese peasants (the basis of the Chinese Communist revolution) could grasp: "The Marxism, sophisticated as it is, can be boiled down to one sentence: to rebel is justified. For thousands of years, it has been said that oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, and rebellion is not. Since the advent of Marxism, this old saying has been turned on its head, and this is a great achievement, for the proletariat has learned this truth from the struggle. As Marx concluded. According to this reasoning, we should resist, we should struggle, we should engage in socialism.
Mao Zedong initiated the Cultural Revolution, with one of the aims being to "smash the old world and create a new one". However, if one look deeper one would see that Mao was driven equally by his ideological needs and his real politics needs. He was dissatisfied with the Soviet-style political order he had created, but more importantly, he wanted to eliminate his political enemies. As a result of Mao's Great Leap Forward blunder, the Chinese were plunged into a three-year famine that killed 35 million (or 40 million) people. Mao was forced to step down to the second tier, while pragmatists like Liu Shaoqi took over the administration, and was rising to the prominence in the party - when I was in primary school, Liu's portrait was displayed alongside that of Mao as leaders. As a person who wanted nothing less than absolute personal authority, Mao found this too much to stomach and Liu must be removed. To do this, Mao could not rely on the system of government that were taken over and operated by Liu Shaoqi (the most important of which were, of course, the public security bureau, the procuratorate, and the courts), he summoned the Red Guards instead. And during the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards were ordered to revolt, and their first major political move was to smash the offices of the Public Security Bureau, the procuratorate, and the courts, which maintained the existing order. Only after this could the Red Guards capture Mao's most hated political enemies and parade them through the streets, criticizing, humiliating and punishing them at will.
In the protests over Floyd's death in the United States, the dismantling of existing law and order became the main demand of those who were secretly manipulating the movement.
Defund the police: the way the American Cultural Revolution does away with the police, the prosecutors and the courts.
Almost all protesters in major cities are trumpeting the slogan "Defund the police". Beginning on May 25, protests have been held in dozens of U.S. cities, with riots and violent robberies occurring everywhere. Brand name stores, gold shops, and hotels are all targets of robbery and vandalism, with shops being robbed, cars burned, and buildings vandalized. According to U.S. media reports, the riots in Minnesota have spread to more than 70 cities across the U.S. In response to the demonstrations, at least eight states, as well as Washington, D.C., have mobilized the National Guards, curfews were imposed in more than 40 cities. The beating, smashing and looting of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are being repeated in the American Cultural Revolution.
Strangely enough, the places with the most vandalism and violence are mostly governed by Democrats: New York. Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and the likes. The vast majority of these cities have, over the years, been on the list of the top 10 most crime-ridden cities in America, and the police there is a high-risk profession. It is only through the efforts of the police officers that these cities have not become complete "crime havens". But it is from these crime-ridden cities that calls for defunding the police emerge, and many states are prepared to do the same. What are the reasons for removing the barriers to public safety, which is beautifully called police reform?
This "reform" is directly related to the public appeal made by former President Barack Obama.
Obama enjoys "Changing" the U.S.
The police know from where the wind is blowing, and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark has made no secret of it: Obama deliberately instigated this war on police officers.
Clark did not wrong Obama. On June 1, as memorial services for Floyd are held, and protests and marches escalate across the U.S., former President Barack Obama, published on the Medium a letter to the protesters of the nation, titled "How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change" in which it says, "it’s going to be up to a new generation of activists to shape strategies that best fit the times". In a departure from his previous rhetorical speeches, he points to a specific direction for reform: the recurring racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system. In addition to reform through protests and elections, the focus is on reforming the police department and the criminal justice system, and the most important entry point is at the state and local levels.
It was with the advantage of his skin color and the slogan "change" that Barack Obama managed to garner the votes from all the blacks and young people dissatisfied with the realities of their lives and determined to do away with the US capitalist system. As has been summed up, former president Obama is one of those rare individuals of the past few decades who, in addition to high I.Q. and E.Q., has the protections of the correct skin color and political correctness.
In his first term in office, Obama was quite cautious and exercised some level of restraint. In the final two years of his second term, however, he stuck at nothing, from decriminalizing drugs to promulgating the absurd order of setting up all-gender toilets. Some of his dozen or so political legacies that changed America have been repealed or undone by Trump, but a few of them are seriously affecting America today. For example, the promotion of skin politics for an increase the influence of a particular group of people resulted in race relations being torn apart and social stability undermined; the introduction of large numbers of illegal immigrants would secure votes for the Democrats for decades to come; and the decriminalization of drugs that connived at teenagers seeking indulgence has turned them into another group of staunch voters for the Democrats.
Although Obama is now out of office, he wants to undermine the very foundation of American society, the federal system. Clark's comment rang true. But this time, the fact that the police system alone is being targeted, while the local judicial and administrative systems left untouched, shows the movement to be one that has been carefully calculated so the two systems would not intervene.
Concrete actions taken in each state to defund the police
Minneapolis, the capital of Minnesota, where the Floyd incident
occurred, has seen multiple incidents of smashing and looting a few days before the protests. On 7 June, the Minneapolis City Council, despite the public opposition of Mayor Jacob Frey, decided with a majority vote (9 to 4) to disband the Minneapolis Police Force, which has been "widely criticized for racism" and set up a new model of public safety system: Community Joint Defense. The
council has 13 seats, 12 from the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (a subsidiary of the
Democratic Party) and 1 from the Green Party.
These
leftist council members, with their confused mind, simply fail to see the status quo in
the city they serve: from January to May 30, the car hijacking rate increased by 45%, the homicide rate increased by
60%, and the arson cases increased by 58% The theft rate rose by 28%.
Compared with the lowest point in 2018, violent crimes are 16% higher
overall and property crimes are 20% higher.
It's a different story for Chicago, known all along as "the crime city." Despite the
fact that 92 people were shot in the first week of June, with 27 of them dead, the mayor decided to disband the police force, a council
member objected by pointing out that [Chicago] cannot just look to the police to keep
order, the presence of just over 370 national guards is not
enough. Instead of relying on good-faith people to react to looters and rioters going into the neighborhood at
nigh, a better plan would be needed. That remark was brusquely dismissed by the mayor.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also agreed to consider disbanding the police force, but a new report released by the New York City Police Department made him hesitate. The report cites the fact that between June 1 and the night of June 7, there were 13 murders and 40 shootings in the city. That compares to just five murders and 24 shootings during the same period in 2019, the most in a week since 2015.
These do not include the "handful of riots" in the demonstrations, just the nightly community policing. De Blasio needs to take into account another set of data from the NYPD: from January to May of this year, shootings in New York City increased by 18 percent, burglary cases increased by 31 percent and carjackings up by 64 percent. Compared to the same period last year, the number of thefts in the first five months of this year has increased by about 1,279, the number of stolen vehicles has increased by 1,078, and the number of victims in shootings increased by 57. Most of these cases occurred outside of Manhattan's business district. The high risk posed by the disbanding the police has forced de Blasio to opt for a tone lower than that of Minneapolis when he responded to calls for defunding the police. He announced that a yet undecided amount of money will be diverted from the police budget and spent on youth and social services in communities of color.
Police in Democratic states withdraws, violence rages.
In this crazy Cultural Revolution orgy, normal police enforcement was treated as violence against the public, while real violence rages. A group of rappers, transsexuals, and homeless people have taken over seven city blocks in Seattle, and proclaimed the creation a self-governing kingdom. After the food was stolen by the homeless, one of the founders tweeted that he wanted to commit suicide and asked the community to provide food, only vegan food, for the autonomous zone to remain operational. The police had to go in the police-no-go zone, do a round of patrol, and said if violence broke out, call 911 and then left.
Although the US Democratic presidential candidate Biden has been adjusting his position and moving closer to Far Left for support, he senses the inappropriateness in this matter. On the evening of the 8th, he stated that while he supports police reform, he opposes defunding the police.
Although responses to the leftist protesters' slogan of "defund the police" in left-leaning states have been positive to a varying degrees, all sides of society questioned whether the slogan had gone too far. Let alone the fact that the slogan was condemned by the Republican Party as "radical left-leaning," a Rasmussen poll on June 9 showed that only Twenty-seven percent of Americans favored reducing the budget for police officers in the communities where they live, while fifty nine percent opposed cutting the budget for local police officers, and fourteen percent remained undecided. Sixty-seven percent of respondents believed local police officers are performing well or excellently. Respondents agreed that blacks being treated unfairly by police is a problem, but discrimination against police officers, reaching an all-time high, presents a bigger issue than crime within the city.
Democratic states have paid no attention to the social disorder in their states, except to blame it on racial discrimination, and recently invented ways of appeasement have begun to be used: From Kneeling, washing the feet of blacks in the streets, kneeling and kissing the shoes of the blacks, to joining these people to tear down historical monuments, with no intention to stop them. The US constitutionalism, based upon the rule of law, has finally shown the world the true state of its serious decline. The dirt and filth that the Democrats have been concealing for years to garner votes are also exposed in broad daylight.
