{"id":9062,"date":"2017-09-23T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2017-09-23T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:28:57","slug":"americas-cultural-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/americas-cultural-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Cultural Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The New American<\/strong>
\nby William F. Jasper
\n9\/6\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the print edition of<\/em> The New American<\/p>\n

Over the past year, America\u2019s university campuses and city streets have erupted in rioting and pitched battles that point toward a return to the violent civil turmoil and social conflagrations of the 1960s. Masked, black-clad thugs claiming to be \u201canti-fascists\u201d (thus using \u201cAntifa\u201d as their adopted moniker) employ fascist\/communist terror tactics to silence those they deem to be enemies. Militant activists of Black Lives Matter (BLM) have likewise used rioting, violence, threats of violence, and accusations of racism to defame, cow, and intimidate their opponents, meaning virtually all white people, all police, all commentators, and all black people and members of other racial minorities who challenge the radical BLM agenda. The shock troops of the aggressive LGBTQ community, as well as the extremists of the environmental\/global-warming alarmist chorus, are resorting to increasingly hostile and violent rhetoric and action. Elites in the media, political circles, and academia turn a blind eye to the Antifa violence or actually egg it on, while decrying the alleged \u201cstructural\u201d flaws of American society \u2014 racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia \u2014 that they insist are especially rampant among conservatives and Christians, and can only be rooted out through deep \u201csystemic\u201d reform and aggressive policing of politically incorrect thought and speech.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign provided the perfect pretext for the organ\u00adized forces of the political Left to go into rhetorical meltdown mode. His election has sent them over the top, into apocalyptic conniptions. Not only is President Trump \u201cHitler,\u201d \u201cMussolini,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cfascist,\u201d \u201cNazi\u201d \u2014 i.e., evil incarnate \u2014 as a wide swath of Trump critics insists, but he must be \u201cresisted\u201d by \u201call means possible,\u201d including violent riots and revolution, even assassination. In the immediate aftermath of Trump\u2019s election victory, colleges and universities provided surreal video spectacles of students and faculty members wailing inconsolably, many being referred to counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder. However, as dictated by political expedience, many of these alleged PTSD \u201ccrybullies\u201d quickly and adeptly shifted gears from fearful victim to defiant revolutionaries, rhetorically attacking Trump and physically attacking his supporters. YouTube and the social media universe abound in videos of Trump haters chanting, \u201cStop the Hate!\u201d and \u201cLove Trumps Hate!\u201d \u2014 as they curse, scream at, beat, kick, spit on, and set fire to fellow Americans who are merely exercising their rights to express support for the candidate of their choice, or to attend the inauguration of the legally elected president of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

While the Trump election may be the focus of the frightful explosion of vicious verbal violence and actual physical violence that have beset America, the real forces at play have been building for many years, carefully nurtured by a new class of professional revolutionaries: tenured radicals, community organizers, politicians, and their elite promoters in the \u201cmainstream\u201d media, major corporations, and tax-exempt foundations. Those with memories long enough and those who have studied 20th-century political history may recognize in the current tumult many familiar contours that are strikingly similar to the horrendous communist convulsion in China known as Mao Tse-tung\u2019s \u201cGreat Proletarian Cultural Revolution.\u201d This is not mere coincidence; there are direct, as well as ideological, ties connecting Red China\u2019s Cultural Revolution and Mao\u2019s murderous, fanatical Red Guards to the unfolding chaos that is enveloping our nation. The frenzied Antifa\/BLM\/LGBTQ\/enviro-climate zealots are the vanguards of a Maoist culture that has taken root in academia, Hollywood, Big Labor, and Big Business, and if allowed to thrive unchallenged will undoubtedly result in now-unimaginable death and destruction, as did Mao\u2019s \u201cglorious experiment\u201d in Orwellian social transformation.<\/em><\/p>\n

During the terrifying decade of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Chairman Mao sent millions of youth into the schools, streets, and countryside to terrorize the Chinese people into total submission. These Red Guards \u2014 mostly high-school and college students, but also including elementary-school pupils \u2014 accused and denounced their own parents, grandparents, and siblings, as well as their neighbors, teachers, and professors, of such \u201ccrimes\u201d as being \u201ccapitalist roaders,\u201d or \u201crightists,\u201d or of showing \u201cbourgeois tendencies,\u201d or expressing \u201cpolitically incorrect thought.\u201d Many of these young communist accusers actually played lead roles in physically attacking, humiliating, torturing, even killing the accused \u201cenemies of the people.\u201d Even many leading Communist Party officials were arrested, tried, imprisoned, and then \u201cre-educated\u201d and \u201crehabilitated\u201d \u2014 or killed. Tearing down and destroying tens of thousands of churches, shrines, temples, statues, and monuments was also a key part of the Cultural Revolution, to cleanse the nation of the \u201cFour Olds\u201d: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Sound familiar?<\/em><\/p>\n

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View the complete on-line presentation at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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