President Trump has repeatedly mentioned in his speeches that he “will never let the United States become a socialist country.”
On Oct. 31, President Trump’s (Trump) oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted (the domestic equivalent of Weibo) on the eve of Halloween that he was going to introduce his daughter to socialism, saying he would take half of the candy and chocolate his daughter got on Halloween and give it to another child who was spending the holiday at his home. And told his daughter that this is socialism.
The tweet was sent out and drew a lot of discussion from netizens, with over 30,000 comments in just one day. Some netizens believe that Trump Jr. is expressing “eating welfare and not working”. As Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto, “The theory of communism can be summed up in one sentence: the abolition of all private property”.
However, socialists often disguise themselves to win votes “for the people”. This is the story of the “wolf grandmother” that is repeated over and over again: wearing a turban and carrying a basket, she comes knocking on the door of the henhouse: “Open up, I’m Granny, I’ve come to bring you good food.”
Chavez’s “Third Way”
In 1998, during his campaign for the Venezuelan presidency, Chávez downplayed his socialist ideas in order to seize power, campaigning under the slogan “Save the poor” and claiming to find a “third way” between socialism and capitalism and to implement “peaceful, democratic revolution”. This led the public to believe that Chavez was not following the path of Eastern Europe’s communists, which had just collapsed in 1991.
When Chavez came to power, he first took control of the legislature and amended the constitution. Since then, he has grandly implemented full socialism, nationalizing important economic sectors and introducing free health care, free education, and a publicly funded housing system. Venezuela has the cheapest gasoline in the world, cheaper than bottled water, and it is used freely.
During his first few years in power, the Venezuelan people lived a good life, with incomes of the poor rising by 55 percent in many places within a few years, unemployment falling by 6.4 percent, and poverty dropping by 10 percent. This made Chávez more and more popular and a “savior” of the poor.
Establishing 132 socialist training centers in 2007, Chávez ordered all business workers in the country to take at least four hours of Marxist theory classes a week, and extended the requirement to the military and schools.
In the early days, with the world’s largest oil reserves and high oil prices, Chávez created a paradise on earth where people sat back and enjoyed a free ride. However, when oil prices took a sharp turn for the worse, Chavez’s planned economy became worse every day.
The “big pot rice” is sooner or later a sitting duck, as evidenced by the “Great Leap Forward” and “big pot rice” in Communist China in the 1950s. Welfare policies have produced more and more “lazy people” and social inefficiencies and stagnation.
Starting in 2010, Venezuela’s economic situation deteriorated. Eventually, the economy collapsed in the midst of a money printing spree, and hunger and desertion flooded the society.
When Chavez announced that he was going to redistribute the wealth and give the money of the rich to the poor, the rich started to emigrate. When Chávez announced that he would nationalize private enterprises, impose foreign exchange controls and price controls on necessities, the middle class began to emigrate. When the successor, Maduro, announced that the money printing machine was on full power, the poor also started to do everything they could to flee to other countries.
Inflation in 2018 even reached a staggering one million percent. The successor Maduro’s government continues to issue money indiscriminately and borrow foreign debt, owing more than $120 billion, including more than $60 billion to China.
According to the Venezuelan Living Conditions Survey (ENCOVI), 75 percent of the country’s population does not have enough to eat and has lost an average of 8.7 kilograms due to chronic hunger.
Thirty years after Eastern Europe abandoned communism in 1989, in 2019, Venezuela is proving once again that communism is a dead end that does not work, that it does not bring happiness to the people, but only evil, corruption, and the suffering and poverty of the population.
The packaged “socialist guide” of the United States
The failure of Venezuela became a global phenomenon. The most influential American socialists, such as Bernie Sanders, have avoided talking about it, claiming instead that Nordic-style socialism is what the United States should emulate.
In the run-up to the U.S. election, leftist scholar Paul H. Rubin’s new “Student’s Guide to Socialism” laid out a blueprint for young socialist fans: not the kind of socialism that has never worked anywhere in history, not the kind that took the Venezuelan economy from the “greatest boom” in South America to the “great crash” in just two decades.
In fact, socialists often begin, as Chavez did, by downplaying communism, “recognizing the flaws in the writings of Karl Marx and Engels.” Socialist advocates realize that “attempts to create a communist state have failed almost everywhere they have been tried.”
The Western mainstream media is largely dominated by the left, and Americans know from media portrayals only that the people of those Nordic countries live in peace and happiness and look like the beacon of Nordic socialism is always shining. Little do they know that they too cannot overcome the chronic problems of socialist economies: economic development is not sustainable in the long run.
When Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen traveled to the United States in early 2019, he was blunt with Sanders, who he said got several things wrong. Rasmussen said, “I know there are people in the United States who connect the Nordic model with a certain kind of socialism, so I want to clarify one thing, Denmark is not even close to a socialist planned economy, Denmark is a market economy.”
In fact, the Nordic countries have perceived the downside of socialism, with Swedish scholars such as Shanandaji arguing that generous benefits have been abused, work ethics have been eroded, and “the Swedes are beginning to feel that socialism has been a ‘big failure’ in all its actions.”
However, the mainstream media, already mired in “political correctness,” is unlikely to report on the troubles caused by socialism in the Nordic countries. Communist “psychedelics”, under the banner of the “Green New Deal”, are on the rise.
In fact, in the last few decades, the U.S. appeasement policy has made socialism a reality in the United States, where surveys of millennials show that 70% believe in socialism.
Communism once appealed to as many people as opium, but in reality it was as poisonous as opium.
Under communist atheism, ungodly indulgence in freedom has flourished in America. The eight years of Obama’s administration, together with the last two years of Bush Jr.’s, have been called the “lost decade” by Americans, with two landmarks: First, the growing number of poor people living on welfare. Second, the middle class is shrinking. Legalization of gay marriage, pardons for hundreds of drug-related death row inmates, and outlandish bathroom orders are all in vogue. Even economists in mainland China say the U.S. has a “big hole” in its finances left by Obama.
The truth about “socialism with Chinese characteristics”
An editorial in the Xinhua Daily on September 27, 1945, “The Right Track to Democracy: Returning Political Power to the People without Reservations,” said, “How to achieve democracy? Please get on the right track of democracy: give the people their rights back to the people!”
“Democracy has become the world trend, and whoever resists this trend will suffer the doom ……” (Xinhua Daily editorial, “Democracy First,” September 15, 1943)
In order to advocate democracy, the Communist Party leader even personally dressed up and waved the flag. In July 1944, in a conversation with General Stilwell, the political advisor to General Chiang Kai-shek’s chief of staff and commander of the China-India-Burma Theater, and Xie Weisi, Mao Zedong said, “Every American soldier in China should be a living advertisement for democracy. He should talk about democracy to every Chinese he meets. American officials should talk about democracy to Chinese officials. In short, the Chinese respect your American ideals of democracy.” (Party History Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, etc., Party History Newsletter, 1983, No. 20-21)
In 1949, the CCP claimed to establish a “free and democratic New China”, and how many overseas patriots left their families and jobs to return home, only to be beaten down or even persecuted to death by the CCP as secret agents, reactionary authorities, etc.!
For decades there have been arguments that the Communist Party is not the same as before, that it is changing, and that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is going its own way. But looking back after 40 years of reform and opening up, the lies, violence, and destruction of beliefs have not changed at all. The proletariat is still the proletariat, and 600 million people earn $1,000 a month, but after forty years of reform and opening up, nearly half of them are living at a standstill.
Mao Sidi, an American scholar who authored the book “Asia’s Bullies: Why the Chinese Dream is a New Threat to the World Order,” says that the Chinese Communist Party is actually a fascist regime in a communist package. The first aspect, according to Mao Sidi, is that the CCP itself consumes about a trillion dollars a year, mainly for cadres and officials’ salaries, retreats, retreats, publicly funded foreign travel, and other things.
The second thing, or the second burden that the Chinese must bear, is the loss of trillions of dollars a year in the state-owned sector. All state-owned economic enterprises are losing money. This is all a heavy burden that is being carried on the backs of the Chinese people.
Mao Sidi says the Chinese Communist Party’s economy has fallen short of its budget and has accumulated too much weight to return. The disintegration of the CCP is inevitable and not very far away.
Conclusion: Warnings against the Communist Party in the U.S. election become a consensus
Throughout history, con artists have often succeeded because they have a set of deception techniques to gain the trust of others with a disguised face. But a liar is a liar after all, and even if he or she is skillful, the day will come when he or she will be exposed.
The U.S. election has shown how far communism has penetrated in the United States. One netizen left a message saying that in the United States we do not want items stolen, money robbed, illegal immigrants entering at will, murder and arson going unpunished, encouraging transgenderism, drug abuse harming the body, protecting the rape of young girls, black lives Guianti lawlessness, theft of $950 legal, elections without identification, and opposition to capitalism becoming socialism, we must boycott Biden.
President Trump repeatedly mentioned in his speech, “Never let the United States become a socialist country.” In the general election, Trump even made the vast majority of Americans realize the true nature of socialism. Now, many Americans have seen through the lies of communism and are supporting Trump in order to resist the mire into which communism is dragging America.
History has come to the most critical moment, and there is nowhere to hide from the Red Devil’s tricks. The socialist frenzy of the U.S. election is just the last knock of “Grandma Wolf”.
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