…to the Democrat Party: you're making the very same mistakes.
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1.How is it that Communist China, during the most destructive chaos, and famine, in history, can offer an observation to the American version of the Bolshevik Party, the Democrats?
It is one of those ironies that only those who study history, not government school grads, can find amusing.
2. When the obsessed ideology took hold of Mao Zedong, and he won the civil war against the Nationalists….with the aid of the Soviet agents in Franklin Roosevelt’s regime,….he instituted collectivist programs to bring China up to the level of the Western powers: they needed to make steel!
“…huge slogans painted on the walls proclaiming “Long Live the Great Leap Forward!” and “Everybody, Make Steel!”…. Chairman Mao had ordered the nation to make a lot of steel. In my school, crucible-like vats had replaced some of our cooking woks and were sitting on the giant stoves in the kitchen. All our scrap iron was fed into them, including the old woks, which had now been broken to bits…. Mao gave full vent to his half-baked dream of turning China into a first-class modern power. He called steel the “marshal” of industry, and ordered steel output to be doubled in one year—from 5.35 million tons in 1957 to 10.7 million in 1958.
But instead of trying to expand the proper steel industry with skilled workers, he decided to get the whole population to take part.
… nearly 100 million peasants were pulled out of agricultural work and into steel production. They had been the labor force producing much of the country’s food.” Chang, “Wild Swans.”
The result was a famine of unheard-of proportions! Between 30 and 80 million Chinese died slowly and painfully.
3. Finally, Mao was forced to give up his obsession…and a new leadership with new priorities took over. Party leader Deng Xiaoping remarked, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." When Mao’s famine was evident, Deng abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy. (Britannica.com)
4. Americans are also subject to irrational obsessions of their elites. Americans need to recognize Mao’s steel obsession in the ‘woke’ doctrines of the Democrat Party, where skin color and genitals are more important than policies and competence.
5. It is hard to miss the message, but easy to miss applying it to contemporary America.
“This absurd situation reflected not only Mao’s ignorance of how an economy worked, but also an almost metaphysical disregard for reality, which might have been interesting in a poet, but in a political leader with absolute power was quite another matter. One of its main components was a deep-seated contempt for human life.” Op. Cit.
Obama was elected, not for any achievements….but for his skin color.
"It doesn't matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." He couldn’t catch mice…but he was woke.
Where are the important, realistic policies that benefit America and Americans????
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1.How is it that Communist China, during the most destructive chaos, and famine, in history, can offer an observation to the American version of the Bolshevik Party, the Democrats?
It is one of those ironies that only those who study history, not government school grads, can find amusing.
2. When the obsessed ideology took hold of Mao Zedong, and he won the civil war against the Nationalists….with the aid of the Soviet agents in Franklin Roosevelt’s regime,….he instituted collectivist programs to bring China up to the level of the Western powers: they needed to make steel!
“…huge slogans painted on the walls proclaiming “Long Live the Great Leap Forward!” and “Everybody, Make Steel!”…. Chairman Mao had ordered the nation to make a lot of steel. In my school, crucible-like vats had replaced some of our cooking woks and were sitting on the giant stoves in the kitchen. All our scrap iron was fed into them, including the old woks, which had now been broken to bits…. Mao gave full vent to his half-baked dream of turning China into a first-class modern power. He called steel the “marshal” of industry, and ordered steel output to be doubled in one year—from 5.35 million tons in 1957 to 10.7 million in 1958.
But instead of trying to expand the proper steel industry with skilled workers, he decided to get the whole population to take part.
… nearly 100 million peasants were pulled out of agricultural work and into steel production. They had been the labor force producing much of the country’s food.” Chang, “Wild Swans.”
The result was a famine of unheard-of proportions! Between 30 and 80 million Chinese died slowly and painfully.
3. Finally, Mao was forced to give up his obsession…and a new leadership with new priorities took over. Party leader Deng Xiaoping remarked, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." When Mao’s famine was evident, Deng abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy. (Britannica.com)
4. Americans are also subject to irrational obsessions of their elites. Americans need to recognize Mao’s steel obsession in the ‘woke’ doctrines of the Democrat Party, where skin color and genitals are more important than policies and competence.
5. It is hard to miss the message, but easy to miss applying it to contemporary America.
“This absurd situation reflected not only Mao’s ignorance of how an economy worked, but also an almost metaphysical disregard for reality, which might have been interesting in a poet, but in a political leader with absolute power was quite another matter. One of its main components was a deep-seated contempt for human life.” Op. Cit.
Obama was elected, not for any achievements….but for his skin color.
"It doesn't matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." He couldn’t catch mice…but he was woke.
Where are the important, realistic policies that benefit America and Americans????
