Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)

[Tom Paine 1949]

The U.S. today is a completely different world than peasant China was at the time of Mao Zedong’s truly mad “Cultural Revolution.” Yet the human capacity to fear and demonize imagined “enemies” remains what it has always been.

Demagogues leading ignorant masses are a danger today as they also were in Weimar Germany, where Hitler was able to demonize Jews on his road to dictatorial power.

In our society the language of “demonization” is widespread and powerfully influential among Fundamentalist Christians. It is widely used by cynical MAGA Trumpsters, who seem to love using the phrase… “Demonrats.”

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue. He is now ever more relying on the language of demonization, as in his recent speech where he called the FBI and DoJ “vicious monsters.” Why? Because he and his supporters are scared. Trump was caught possessing top secret documents he had no right to possess, denied having, claimed were personally “de-classified,” and even accused the FBI of “planting.”

In times of “culture war” and political uncertainty, demagogues always use such language against opponents. Often enough, if these demagogues come to power, the momentum of their “Big Lies” and demonization leads them to persecuting, jailing, often even killing their opponents. Such language by itself already … “undermines democracy.”

Here is a reminder of one unusual case history of an ignorant but “popular” movement that used such language to launch an incredibly chaotic “civil war,” a broad national political purge serving the petty narcissism and megalomania of one man … that did immense harm to an entire civilization.

’Monsters and Demons’ (牛鬼蛇神, niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars, authorities and ‘people who entrenched themselves in ideological and cultural positions’ during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People’s Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, the Red Guards started a huge purge which swept the country, ‘dragging out’ and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. The editorial was written under Mao Zedong’s order by his political secretary Chen Boda, one of the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group headed by Jiang Qing….

Niugui sheshen … was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (魔鬼, mogui), ‘demons’ (鬼怪, guiguai), ‘monsters’ (魔怪, moguai), ‘vampires’ (吸血鬼, xixue gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (照妖镜, zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.

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Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
https://chineseposters.net/themes/monsters-demons

 

[Flash]

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue.

You are a fucking TDS demented moron that doesn't have a clue what you are talking about. Go take your TDS meds, lie down, take a nap and get back with us when you pull your head out of your Moon Bat ass. In the meantime take your uneducated stupidity elsewhere.

 

[Sunni Man]

 

[Calypso Jones]

 

[Votto]

The U.S. today is a completely different world than peasant China was at the time of Mao Zedong’s truly mad “Cultural Revolution.” Yet the human capacity to fear and demonize imagined “enemies” remains what it has always been.

Demagogues leading ignorant masses are a danger today as they also were in Weimar Germany, where Hitler was able to demonize Jews on his road to dictatorial power.

In our society the language of “demonization” is widespread and powerfully influential among Fundamentalist Christians. It is widely used by cynical MAGA Trumpsters, who seem to love using the phrase… “Demonrats.”

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue. He is now ever more relying on the language of demonization, as in his recent speech where he called the FBI and DoJ “vicious monsters.” Why? Because he and his supporters are scared. Trump was caught possessing top secret documents he had no right to possess, denied having, claimed were personally “de-classified,” and even accused the FBI of “planting.”

In times of “culture war” and political uncertainty, demagogues always use such language against opponents. Often enough, if these demagogues come to power, the momentum of their “Big Lies” and demonization leads them to persecuting, jailing, often even killing their opponents. Such language by itself already … “undermines democracy.”

Here is a reminder of one unusual case history of an ignorant but “popular” movement that used such language to launch an incredibly chaotic “civil war,” a broad national political purge serving the petty narcissism and megalomania of one man … that did immense harm to an entire civilization.

’Monsters and Demons’ (牛鬼蛇神, niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars, authorities and ‘people who entrenched themselves in ideological and cultural positions’ during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People’s Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, the Red Guards started a huge purge which swept the country, ‘dragging out’ and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. The editorial was written under Mao Zedong’s order by his political secretary Chen Boda, one of the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group headed by Jiang Qing….

Niugui sheshen … was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (魔鬼, mogui), ‘demons’ (鬼怪, guiguai), ‘monsters’ (魔怪, moguai), ‘vampires’ (吸血鬼, xixue gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (照妖镜, zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.

Trump calls FBI, DoJ ‘vicious monsters’ in first rally since Mar-a-Lago search
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)

Let me just goose step over hear with my deplorable semi-fascist right wing self and answer some of these allegations.

Before we begin, however, I need some books to burn.

And where are those blasted human sized ovens I orders for the interment camps?

Curses!!

 

[Flash]

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This "Tom Paine 1949" nitwit is the same idiot that claims that our Founding Fathers were Socialists so go figure.

Low IQ and sick in the mind with the TDS mental illness.

 

[Darkwind]

The U.S. today is a completely different world than peasant China was at the time of Mao Zedong’s truly mad “Cultural Revolution.” Yet the human capacity to fear and demonize imagined “enemies” remains what it has always been.

Demagogues leading ignorant masses are a danger today as they also were in Weimar Germany, where Hitler was able to demonize Jews on his road to dictatorial power.

In our society the language of “demonization” is widespread and powerfully influential among Fundamentalist Christians. It is widely used by cynical MAGA Trumpsters, who seem to love using the phrase… “Demonrats.”

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue. He is now ever more relying on the language of demonization, as in his recent speech where he called the FBI and DoJ “vicious monsters.” Why? Because he and his supporters are scared. Trump was caught possessing top secret documents he had no right to possess, denied having, claimed were personally “de-classified,” and even accused the FBI of “planting.”

In times of “culture war” and political uncertainty, demagogues always use such language against opponents. Often enough, if these demagogues come to power, the momentum of their “Big Lies” and demonization leads them to persecuting, jailing, often even killing their opponents. Such language by itself already … “undermines democracy.”

Here is a reminder of one unusual case history of an ignorant but “popular” movement that used such language to launch an incredibly chaotic “civil war,” a broad national political purge serving the petty narcissism and megalomania of one man … that did immense harm to an entire civilization.

’Monsters and Demons’ (牛鬼蛇神, niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars, authorities and ‘people who entrenched themselves in ideological and cultural positions’ during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People’s Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, the Red Guards started a huge purge which swept the country, ‘dragging out’ and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. The editorial was written under Mao Zedong’s order by his political secretary Chen Boda, one of the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group headed by Jiang Qing….

Niugui sheshen … was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (魔鬼, mogui), ‘demons’ (鬼怪, guiguai), ‘monsters’ (魔怪, moguai), ‘vampires’ (吸血鬼, xixue gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (照妖镜, zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.

Trump calls FBI, DoJ ‘vicious monsters’ in first rally since Mar-a-Lago search
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)

Yet, all the fascist language spoken or written in America today comes from the left.

Do you even realize how unstable you sound?

 

[Correll]

The U.S. today is a completely different world than peasant China was at the time of Mao Zedong’s truly mad “Cultural Revolution.” Yet the human capacity to fear and demonize imagined “enemies” remains what it has always been.

Demagogues leading ignorant masses are a danger today as they also were in Weimar Germany, where Hitler was able to demonize Jews on his road to dictatorial power.

In our society the language of “demonization” is widespread and powerfully influential among Fundamentalist Christians. It is widely used by cynical MAGA Trumpsters, who seem to love using the phrase… “Demonrats.”

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue. He is now ever more relying on the language of demonization, as in his recent speech where he called the FBI and DoJ “vicious monsters.” Why? Because he and his supporters are scared. Trump was caught possessing top secret documents he had no right to possess, denied having, claimed were personally “de-classified,” and even accused the FBI of “planting.”

In times of “culture war” and political uncertainty, demagogues always use such language against opponents. Often enough, if these demagogues come to power, the momentum of their “Big Lies” and demonization leads them to persecuting, jailing, often even killing their opponents. Such language by itself already … “undermines democracy.”

Here is a reminder of one unusual case history of an ignorant but “popular” movement that used such language to launch an incredibly chaotic “civil war,” a broad national political purge serving the petty narcissism and megalomania of one man … that did immense harm to an entire civilization.

’Monsters and Demons’ (牛鬼蛇神, niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars, authorities and ‘people who entrenched themselves in ideological and cultural positions’ during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People’s Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, the Red Guards started a huge purge which swept the country, ‘dragging out’ and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. The editorial was written under Mao Zedong’s order by his political secretary Chen Boda, one of the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group headed by Jiang Qing….

Niugui sheshen … was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (魔鬼, mogui), ‘demons’ (鬼怪, guiguai), ‘monsters’ (魔怪, moguai), ‘vampires’ (吸血鬼, xixue gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (照妖镜, zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.

Trump calls FBI, DoJ ‘vicious monsters’ in first rally since Mar-a-Lago search
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)

What is the Race Card, but the ultimate demonization and marginalization of a group?


If you want to discuss this issue, seriously, you need to establish some moral credibility, by not engaging in the act yourself, or at least tying to have some self awareness.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

As expected our Trumpster and Confederate Flag-waving commenters show no willingness to discuss language or history. Some just insult and “mock” — though they are themselves making a mockery of our democracy every day.

The Confederate Flag waving fool Flash outshines his friends in lying imbecility — he says that I claim “that our Founding Fathers were Socialists.”

Though the “Founding Fathers” were not all of one mind, they mostly shared Enlightened values of their time and place. They were Enlightenment-influenced slave owners, tradesmen, lawyers, farmers, scientists, newspapermen, politicians, even religious leaders.

Not one of the Founding Fathers, not even radical working-class artisans of the day, would describe themselves as “Socialist.” Adam Smith’s famous and then very progressive “Wealth of Nations,” was only published in 1776, introducing classical liberal economic thought. The Founders lived in a time when colonial empire and slavery, Monarchies and aristocratic privilege, characterized developing capitalism.

The Founding Fathers were fervent believers in private property, and many were wealthy and ambitious men. They wanted “independence” and most favored a representative Republican system of government. The more farsighted Americans (not all) talked about “the rights of man” and desired “liberty” from the British monarchy. Indeed their ambitions were sparked by the obvious possibility of expanding their own “Empire of Liberty” across the continent. “Socialists” … they certainly were NOT.

 

[Flash]

As expected our Trumpster and Confederate Flag-waving commenters show no willingness to discuss language or history. Some just insult and “mock” — though they are themselves making a mockery of our democracy every day.

The Confederate Flag waving fool Flash outshines his friends in lying imbecility — he says that I claim “that our Founding Fathers were Socialists.”

Though the “Founding Fathers” were not all of one mind, they mostly shared Enlightened values of their time and place. They were Enlightenment-influenced slave owners, tradesmen, lawyers, farmers, scientists, newspapermen, politicians, even religious leaders.

Not one of the Founding Fathers, not even radical working-class artisans of the day, would describe themselves as “Socialist.” Adam Smith’s famous and then very progressive “Wealth of Nations,” was only published in 1776, introducing classical liberal economic thought. The Founders lived in a time when colonial empire and slavery, Monarchies and aristocratic privilege, characterized developing capitalism.

The Founding Fathers were fervent believers in private property, and many were wealthy and ambitious men. They wanted “independence” and most favored a representative Republican system of government. The more farsighted Americans (not all) talked about “the rights of man” and desired “liberty” from the British monarchy. Indeed their ambitions were sparked by the obvious possibility of expanding their own “Empire of Liberty” across the continent. “Socialists” … they certainly were NOT.

I have the avatar to trigger you stupid hate filled Moon Bats.

Thanks for playing Moon Bat.

 

[Correll]

As expected our Trumpster and Confederate Flag-waving commenters show no willingness to discuss language or history.

Why not just call them Trump supporters? Then you could make your point, without undermining it by engaging in the exact behavior your thread is attacking.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

‘Why not just call them Trump supporters? Then you could make your point, without undermining it by engaging in the exact behavior your thread is attacking.” — Correll

As I use the terms. “Trumpster” or “Trump cultist” is very different than “Trump supporters” or “Trump voters.” Many would say they voted for Trump and supported Trump in 2016, or 2016 and 2020, but never considered themselves Trumpsters or Trump cultists. I am trying to make an important distinction here, and provide a way for ordinary Trump sympathizers to see where their naive support of this particular demagogue may be taking them.

Equally, in China many people regret having been Maoist Red Guard cult followers in the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.” Millions subsequently realized how terribly they hurt innocents, even family and friends, how they hurt themselves and their country. Of course in their case they had little or no training or history in respectful democratic discussion. In China’s “Cultural Revolution” there were no institutional political guardrails in place, and “mass democracy” was used in the interests of one megalomaniac and his faction of the communist party against other factions … and of course against innocents, scholars, small farmers and property owners, etc.

 

[Correll]

As I use the terms. “Trumpster” or “Trump cultist” is very different than “Trump supporters” or “Trump voters.” Many would say they voted for Trump and supported Trump in 2016, or 2016 and 2020, but never considered themselves Trumpsters or Trump cultists. I am trying to make an important distinction here, and provide a way for ordinary Trump sympathizers to see where their naive support of this particular demagogue may be taking them.

Equally, in China many people regret having been Maoist Red Guard cult followers in the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.” Millions subsequently realized how terribly they hurt innocents, even family and friends, how they hurt themselves and their country. Of course in their case they had little or no training or history in respectful democratic discussion. In China’s “Cultural Revolution” there were no institutional political guardrails in place, and “mass democracy” was used in the interests of one megalomaniac and his faction of the communist party against other factions … and of course against innocents, scholars, small farmers and property owners, etc.

So, "Trump Partisan", or "Hardliner" would do that, without risking the same type of demogaugery that you are citing as a problem.

How do you know that your group is not hte one on track to committ horrible atrocies as per the CUltural Revolution?

Cause your side has been using pretty harsh rhetoric for a long time now. Indeed, ever complaint you raise, can be turned around and laid right back at your side's feet.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

So, "Trump Partisan", or "Hardliner" would do that, without risking the same type of demogaugery that you are citing as a problem.

How do you know that your group is not hte one on track to committ horrible atrocies as per the CUltural Revolution?

Cause your side has been using pretty harsh rhetoric for a long time now. Indeed, ever complaint you raise, can be turned around and laid right back at your side's feet.

I have no objection to “Trump Partisan / Hardliner” but it doesn’t get to the point of this OP … which is about the “Monsters and Demons” language of demagogues. Of course I believe that Trump’s demagogy, the “Trump cult” and especially the widespread “demonology” of opponents his movement uses … constitutes a threat to our Republic.

Could the Democrats constitute this sort of threat, too? Sure, if the situation were VERY DIFFERENT. Certainly not now!

Just look at the uncharismatic Biden, who won some 81 million votes from Dem voters and independents. Dem voters are generally repelled by the crass sort of demagogy Trump revels in. Dem voters and activists are typified by what sort of person … unarmed schoolteachers? Certainly not by armed-to-the-teeth “rednecks” or rank-and-file cops.

The DNC leaders today settle for milquetoast candidates and milquetoast reforms. Their media supporters promote an old fashioned and out of date “manufactured consent,” not a teleos of demagogy for “radical change” based on personality politics. There is just no way to imagine them right now matching Donald Trump’s demagogy or that of kindred other Trump-supporting Republican grifters.

I think Dems may often be stupid or unrealistic. Their leadership tends to be uninspired. The DNC is slow to act, corrupt and bureaucratic. But Dems as a party and registered Democratic voters by nature usually don’t leap to follow crazy demagogues.

I know from arguing with you that you are extremely sensitive about what you believe is “harsh rhetoric” coming from “my side.” But the Democrats are not “my side.”

I oppose the increasing wealth differences arising from policies introduced from whichever source, whichever party. I oppose DNC and/or other liberal nostrums on foreign policy, identity politics, immigration and extreme “gender” issues (though I don’t much worry about the latter). I haven’t generally — not even in 2016 — voted Democratic in Presidential contests.

On the OP issue, on similar issues of debasing democratic discussion and dividing the country, by spreading obvious, cynical and preposterous lies, by trying to hold onto power illegitimately, by demonizing “the other” party while painting himself as an infallible “great helmsman,” Trump and his fanatics have turned me into a proud “Never Trumper.”

All parties and all politicians lie, as the saying goes, but “Trumpism” is something new and odious.

 

[Correll]

I have no objection to “Trump Partisan / Hardliner” but it doesn’t get to the point of this OP … which is about the “Monsters and Demons” language of demagogues. Of course I believe that Trump’s demagogy, the “Trump cult” and especially the widespread “demonology” of opponents his movement uses … constitutes a threat to our Republic.

Actually, if your supporting argument is good, then it certainly WOULD get the message across. How about that, let your argument paint the picture of your enemies, not your rhetoric?

What an idea. Almost intellectual. Certainly the opposite of demogaguery. Yet you resist it... Odd...

Could the Democrats constitute this sort of threat, too? Sure, if the situation were VERY DIFFERENT. Certainly not now!

Just look at the uncharismatic Biden, who won some 81 million votes from Dem voters and independents. Dem voters are generally repelled by the crass sort of demagogy Trump revels in. Dem voters are unarmed schoolteachers, not armed to the teeth “rednecks” or rank and file cops. The DNC leaders today settle for milquetoast candidates and milquetoast reforms. Their media supporters promote an old fashioned and out of date “manufactured consent,” not a teleos of radical change and demagogy. Their is no way to imagine them right now as being in Donald Trump’s class or like kindred other Republicans … as “rebels” following some demagogue.

Really? Despite the mass street violence leading into the election? Despite teh control of media, big tech, social media, hollywood, education, ect. ect. ect, all pushing towards one direction, every LEFTWARD.

I'll give you lack of Charasma, but that alone is not enough to dismiss the possible danger.

I know from arguing with you that you are extremely sensitive about what you believe is “harsh rhetoric” coming from “my side.” But the Democrats are not “my side.”

I oppose the increasing wealth differences arising from policies introduced from whichever source, whichever party. I oppose DNC and/or other liberal nostrums on foreign policy, identity politics, immigration and extreme “gender” issues (though I don’t much worry about the latter). I haven’t generally — not even in 2016 — voted Democratic in Presidential contests.

On the OP issue, on similar issues of debasing democratic discussion and dividing the country, by spreading obvious, cynical and preposterous lies,

Nothing Trump ever said, was more obvious and poisonous, than the Lefty lie that he called neo-nazis very fine people. Indeed, liberals, which you claim not to be "your side" still hold to that absurd and utterly refuted lie, because they have too.

They know that the truth is their enemy, and they have to stonewall on all of it, to hold their house of cards together.

by trying to hold onto power illegitimately, by demonizing “the other” party while painting himself as an infallible “great helmsman,” Trump and his fanatics have turned me into a proud “Never Trumper.”

All parties and all politicians lie, as the saying goes, but “Trumpism” is something new and odious.

Trump's style is new. His policies are not. THey are boring. Far from radical. His administration did nothing out of the ordinary.

The voting rules were massively relaxed becasue of Covid. Being skeptical of them is not out of line. There were reasons that we had those tighter rules, and it wasn't to stop blacks from voting or some other nonsense.

 

[themirrorthief]

The U.S. today is a completely different world than peasant China was at the time of Mao Zedong’s truly mad “Cultural Revolution.” Yet the human capacity to fear and demonize imagined “enemies” remains what it has always been.

Demagogues leading ignorant masses are a danger today as they also were in Weimar Germany, where Hitler was able to demonize Jews on his road to dictatorial power.

In our society the language of “demonization” is widespread and powerfully influential among Fundamentalist Christians. It is widely used by cynical MAGA Trumpsters, who seem to love using the phrase… “Demonrats.”

Trump is an expert and utterly unprincipled demagogue. He is now ever more relying on the language of demonization, as in his recent speech where he called the FBI and DoJ “vicious monsters.” Why? Because he and his supporters are scared. Trump was caught possessing top secret documents he had no right to possess, denied having, claimed were personally “de-classified,” and even accused the FBI of “planting.”

In times of “culture war” and political uncertainty, demagogues always use such language against opponents. Often enough, if these demagogues come to power, the momentum of their “Big Lies” and demonization leads them to persecuting, jailing, often even killing their opponents. Such language by itself already … “undermines democracy.”

Here is a reminder of one unusual case history of an ignorant but “popular” movement that used such language to launch an incredibly chaotic “civil war,” a broad national political purge serving the petty narcissism and megalomania of one man … that did immense harm to an entire civilization.

’Monsters and Demons’ (牛鬼蛇神, niugui sheshen) was the term used to vilify specialists, scholars, authorities and ‘people who entrenched themselves in ideological and cultural positions’ during the Cultural Revolution. After the publication of the editorial "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons" in People’s Daily on 1 June 1966, and after it was rebroadcast and reprinted, the Red Guards started a huge purge which swept the country, ‘dragging out’ and prosecuting all those ostensibly fitting the description. The editorial was written under Mao Zedong’s order by his political secretary Chen Boda, one of the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group headed by Jiang Qing….

Niugui sheshen … was the most recurrent supernatural metaphor used during the Cultural Revolution. It was rooted in Buddhist demonology and an especially potent weapon to demonize one’s opponents. Other terms included ‘devils’ (魔鬼, mogui), ‘demons’ (鬼怪, guiguai), ‘monsters’ (魔怪, moguai), ‘vampires’ (吸血鬼, xixue gui), and ‘apparitions and spectres’ (wangliang guimei). All these ‘evil spirits’ could be identified with the ‘demon-exposing mirror’ (照妖镜, zhaoyao jing) of Mao Zedong Thought.

Trump calls FBI, DoJ ‘vicious monsters’ in first rally since Mar-a-Lago search
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)
Monsters and Demons (1966-1967)

someday you will wake up with a trumpybear sitting on the end of your bed...go to a doctor and get on meds before that happens poor dear

 

[whitehall]

Once more it seems that left wingers prefer to be victims than govern by the will of the people. The media has been the propaganda arm of the democrat party for the better part of a hundred years. The so-called "Citizen Soldier" former COS George Marshall was the worst choice to be "Secretary of State" in the post war years. Marshall disarmed the loyal Chinese and paved the way for the Mao revolutionary government.