One can go back in history of many decades ago and read about the Red Guards of Communist China. Young men and women, high school students were dispatched to targets within China and have at it! No sector of life, no person, remained untouchable during the havoc and murder of the times, as many of the cultural elite of China were slaughtered or dispatched to a brutal life in the fields and factories of China.
Their positions at the time of attack in brutal invective and blows, dispensed with much enthusiasm by the crazed members of the Red Guard, provided no protection. These unfortunates were forced to inform on themselves among a slew of others, even family members and beg forgiveness and punishment for their so-called misdeeds and crimes against the people of China.
This horrible campaign wiped out centuries of China's culture. disappeared people by the thousands, the tens of thousands. All possibility of education for that generation was denied and their plans and dreams wiped out, their world destroyed. Heinous behavior devoid of any positive component, violating the laws of humanity, was encouraged and brutality was the name of the game. It was the only assured path to success in that brutal world.
Well, folks, as we have seen many times over, history tends to repeat itself with minor changes of names and sites. Today Americans can puff their chest out in pride at our American Red Guard cohort. Oh, so proud indeed. These empowered bullies range far and wide, wreaking havoc and terror among federal employees, the very ones who grease the cogs of government in our nation. The families? Merely collateral damage of not much significance.
So emboldened are these whirling dervishes of destruction that within days they have rivaled the ruthlessness of so many crazed people of history. Temporarily at the top of the heap, they are insane with the desire, the need, to retain their positions and are willing to do anything and everything in order to keep that reality. In claiming they are improving the government, making it more efficient, they are very clearly inducing the very opposite.
Time and time again history has demonstrated that people who work out of fear, people who are forced to inform on their fellow workers, people. with no security in their position, simply do not make the best of workers. Their loyalty is demanded rather than earned. It does nothing to ensure a better life. A better job. A firmer sense of security. Trust has disappeared. The economy tanks as loyalty to anything and everything other than self has just about disappeared off the shelves of life. Life itself. becomes ugly as dreams are swept away in torrents of hate and negativity. Lest you think this cannot happen here, anywhere, certainly not in our time, I recommend you peruse the news media, look around and understand the truth. and rethink.
We here in America are oh so blessed to have our very own homegrown Red Guard. Perhaps not so American, correct, but certainly they understand the value of induced loyalty as in robotic manner and crazy speed, with willful deflection. and blindness to consequences. This bloody cohort, these minions of Musk are shredding our economy to bits, rending our souls to naught but random pieces of what once was.
Sold to the Devil souls now occupy the seats with vantage points and contacts available. The news? Slanted, of course, too often presented at such a steep incline, that there is an ever-present threat of losing balance and position and falling to the bottom, where worse awaits. Crooked corrupt bought souls of the media and the legislatures cheer it all, as they join an electorate who are just now beginning to understand what they have empowered.
What's more is that this is only a mere few weeks after inauguration, an inauguration which was to have brought all hostages home. So much for the "Hell that will break loose". Seems to have skipped the Mideast and parked itself over us in an atmospheric river of bad news and the ever present lies of an overburdened mind. Even as our nation crumbles round our feet. as hopelessness and haplessness grows, and the horrid destructive crew of our very own Red Guards run wild through our ever-weakening besieged foundations.
Berserk late teens and barely past are running wild through our nation, leaving. behind only destruction. Nothing. of true value. and nothing which encourages us to believe in a better future. How have we allowed ourselves to devolve into a 4th world nation? How have we allowed one demented individual to take over this entire nation, causing people to fall down in obeisance to him How? Why? And why, why are so many turned into toads as they cower before him.
There are many answers enough to keep generations of analysts busy. But the point is that we cannot wait for that discussion to come up with some kind of a conclusion. We. must act asap. We must become proactive, alert, ready to do what must be done in order to forestall this man's usurpation of this nation. Prevent him. and his creepy buddies from using democracy to overthrow democracy. We must be better, brighter, quicker. We had better grow quite a few if we are to win this battle.
We must deny power to Musk and his ugly minions. We must convince Trump that he has a lovely life awaiting him in some lovely retirement home where he and his minions can discuss and indulge themselves in their fantasies without harm to others. Fellow travelers of the same paths as Trump and his Grand Vizier Musk will be free to walk along with him. One oath: swear loyalty to this nation as a whole. That it is never presumed that one person can rule this nation. That its founding principles, will be deeply etched within the hearts and minds of the American people.
We must be better and stronger and more determined. We are not to allow ourselves to be tossed down the drain. We must learn to accept that it is a difficult process, and almost impossible, to rehab a nation. To weed out that which is inimical to growth and improvement. We must persevere. We must stop the attacks upon our nation. Trump and Musk and all their adherents are coming, slowly, to a realization of the truth, of the harmful effects of his policies, one crazier than the other.
Can we do this? The doubts weigh heavy in my mind. How indeed does one counter national aberrations?
On the morrow
(If indeed, that morrow is real.)
Red Guard? DOGE? All the baggage of those terms? A nation lost in its ways, astray off the correct path.
On the morrow. Too tired today.
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