By LifeSiteNews (Politics) | Created at 2024-09-27 14:07:13 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:19:19
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(LifeSiteNews) — Mao Zedong liked to brag about the “three magic weapons” he had used to seize power; namely, propaganda, the People’s Liberation Army, and united front tactics.
By this he meant you brainwash those you can, intimidate or kill those you can’t, all the while creating or coopting organizations to advance the revolution.
It turns out that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have three magic weapons of their own, which are not all that dissimilar from the Maoist originals. They are propaganda, lawfare, and front organizations.
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The regime media – by which I mean all social media outside of Twitter/X and Truth Social, and all print media aside from the New York Post and the Washington Times – is putting up a propaganda smokescreen around the Harris-Walz campaign worthy of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily fawning coverage of Xi Jinping.
They are allowing Harris to run a Potemkin campaign that is long on feel-good rhetoric about “joy,” “hope,” and “change,” and totally devoid of substance.
The goal is to obscure Harris’ long-held radical views (defunding the police, abolishing ICE, decriminalizing immigration, slavery reparations, etc.) until she is in office. That’s why the media doesn’t call her out, even when she directly contradicts herself.
In one recent interview, for example, she started out by claiming that she would not confiscate guns and then went on in the very next breath to detail how she intended to confiscate “assault weapons.” But her interviewer, apparently taking to heart Harris’ admonition to be “unburdened by what has been,” let this doublespeak pass without comment.
Nor does the media call out the hypocrisy of her running mate. Tim Walz insists that his America is one where everyone “minds his own damn business,” while at the same time claiming that “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” One glimpse into Walz’ idea of “neighborliness” came during the COVID lockdowns, when he set up a snitch line for neighbors to rat each other out.
Mao, whose China Walz admires, was a master propagandist. During the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, Mao suddenly turned on the charm. He began claiming to be a great admirer of American democracy. He criticized Chiang Kai-shek as a dictator and promised that the new China would be a democracy.
The ploy worked. U.S. military aid to the nationalists was suspended, and some of Chiang’s generals went over to Mao. Once in power, of course, Mao mocked those who had fallen for his ruse and ruled as a tyrant.
Aided by the mainstream media, the entire Harris-Walz propaganda campaign is a psyop worthy of Mao.
The second Maoist-style magic weapon being deployed by the Harris-Walz campaign is front organizations. Just as the CCP set up splinter parties and newspapers throughout nationalist China to give the appearance of widespread support, so is the Harris-Walz campaign setting up front organizations for the same purpose.
Proving that Leftists rarely have an original thought, these groups often mirror an outreach by the Trump campaign. Within days of the organization of “Catholics for Trump,” a group called “Catholics for Harris” suddenly came into being.
So, too, when Trump received the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest union of police officers, a pro-Harris group called “Police Leaders for Community Safety” magically materialized.
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The newly minted group – which has about a dozen members – praised Harris for her commitment to public safety and the rule of law. This is the same woman who as California attorney general let hardened criminals walk free, as senator bailed out violent BLM rioters, and as vice president broke the border.
There is one respect in which the Harris-Walz campaign has done the CCP one better. Following in Obama’s footsteps, they have seized control of one of America’s two major parties and are using it as cover for their Marxist policies.
To be sure, the Democrats have been moving left for decades. It was Ronald Reagan who first said, in a line recently repeated by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., that, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me.”
Millions of Democrats are still unaware that their party is now little more than a front organization for the Marxists who are running the show, or that they are led by a nominee who secured her position in a silent coup.
The Harris-Walz campaign does not command anything comparable to Mao’s third Magic Weapon: the People’s Liberation Army. This is not to say that they haven’t tried to follow the typical communist pattern of courting small, disaffected groups, attempting to convert them into the shock troops they need to intimidate the larger population. But the groups in question, the soy boys of Antifa and the looters of BLM, did little more than burn down buildings in their own neighborhoods, all located in Democrat-controlled cities.
But what they do have is lawfare.
Behind every one of seven ongoing lawsuits against Donald Trump is a phalanx of Democrat lawyers and politicians who are waging a kind of legal and political guerilla warfare against the former president, seeking to weaken his resolve and deplete his resources. When they lose one legal battle, they open another front in this ongoing war of attrition.
Warfare, the German strategist Clauswitz famously declared, was a continuation of politics by other means. For the Marxists who have seized control of the Democrat Party, lawfare is the continuation of politics by other means.
And so, one suspects, are assassinations.
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Not one but two attempts have been made on Trump’s life so far, each the result of a series of failures on the part of the U.S. Secret Service that are so inexplicable that they almost seem to be deliberate. Not to mention the “mechanical problems” that have forced both Trump and JD Vance’s planes to make emergency landings. For some reason, planes carrying Democrat politicians do not seem to experience similar problems.
Despite all this, Trump seems to be headed toward a victory in November. But even if he wins by an electoral college landslide and carries the popular vote, do not expect the Marxists to go quietly. They never do. More riots, assassination attempts, wars, and even a Fedsurrection – a staged insurrection on January 6, 2025 – will all be on the table.
Now you may dismiss all the parallels between America’s Marxists and Mao’s Three Magic Weapons as mere coincidence and conjecture if you are so inclined. But I see a pattern.
And it is not all that different from the pattern used by the CCP to seize and hold power in China for the past 75 years.
Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of The Devil and Communist China.
Steven Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and an internationally recognised authority on China and population issues. He was the first American social scientist allowed to do fieldwork in Communist China (1979-80), where he witnessed women being forcibly aborted and sterilized under the new “one-child-policy”. Mosher’s groundbreaking reports on these barbaric practices led to his termination from Stanford University. A pro-choice atheist at the time, the soul-searching that followed this experience led him to reconsider his convictions and become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic.
Mosher has testified two dozen times before the US Congress as an expert in world population, China and human rights. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, NewsMax and other television shows, well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation.
He is the author of a dozen books on China, including the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child-Policy. His latest books are Bully of Asia (2022) about the threat that the Chinese Communist Party poses to the U.S. and the world, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics. (2022).
Articles by Steve have also appeared in The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications.
Steven Mosher lives in Florida with his wife, Vera, and a constant steam of children and grandchildren.
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