Sultan Knish knocks another one out of the park.
A snippet, but go read it all to understand exactly where Obama and the progressives are coming from:
As the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution approaches some of the former students who participated in its Red Guard terror have been trying to make amends to their victims. If China's former leftist fanatics feel some remorse for the atrocities they participated in, the same can't be said of their American counterparts.
Even as the Cultural Revolution was dying down in China, it flared up in the United States. The Weather Underground drew inspiration from China's Red Terror. Their founding manifesto cited the Red Guard as a model for a "mass revolutionary movement."
Bill Ayers, among others, had signed a letter, "Long live People's China. Love live Comrade Mao."
The American counterparts of China’s Red Guard remain largely unrepentant because here the Cultural Revolution never ended. Instead it went mainstream. Its members were never disavowed and their acts of terror continue to be celebrated, minimized and whitewashed by a left that finds them alternately embarrassing and thrilling.
The terrorists became celebrities and the radicals became part of the system and set the rules. There was less violence, but more authoritarianism. Instead of carrying on a futile campaign of bombings and bank robberies, the radicals used the vast wealth and power of the system to train the next generation of the Red Guard. And that next generation did the same thing.
Each wave of the Cultural Revolution in the United States has eroded civil rights and illiberally undermined a liberal society. Though the Red Guards have chosen to work within the system, they are animated by an unmistakeable contempt and hatred for the country and its institutions. Their endgame has not changed. Only their tactics have.
Barack Obama, a child of the Cultural Revolution, is the very model of a modern Red Guard. The mark of a successful revolution is that the revolutionaries no longer need extreme rhetoric since they can do anything they want. The Weather Underground engaged in extreme rhetoric and actions. Obama dispenses with the extreme rhetoric and gets right down to the extreme actions. He is calculating enough to avoid the verbal vindictiveness of an Ayers or a Wright, but he still chose them as his mentors.
America under the Red Guards is run by liberals without liberalism. Locke's "No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions" is as alien a sentiment to them as if it were expressed in binary code.
It it will probably take another revolution to get rid of them one and for all if our country is to be saved.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, probably so.
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