by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:
The goal of the Cultural Revolution isn’t to persuade, it’s to enforce compliance.
A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means. Thus the primary tools of a Cultural Revolution are not redistributing power via elections (politics) or financial reforms; the primary tools are public shaming and denouncements, purges of those in positions of authority, show trials, guilt-by-association, wholesale denouncements of entire classes and widespread accusations of anti-progressive (“counter-revolutionary”) tendencies in which guilt is defined by all-or-nothing litmus tests of one’s loyalties to the Cultural Revolution’s strict ideology.
Nancy Pelosi says walls are immoral.
Last Monday, there was a striking headline in the Daily Telegraph: “Russia looks to bitcoin to soften effects of US Sanctions”. The immediate impact on bitcoin’s price was minimal, though it did rise 4.2% later in the day, after Zerohedge picked up the story.[i]
For the 10th week in a row, Yellow Vest protesters filled the streets of Paris and other cities in France, with thousands of police standing guard. Earlier, President Emmanuel Macron launched his “national debates” on the crisis.
Imagine sending your son or daughter off to college, only to have him or her return as a “her” or “him” instead. We’re talking about transgenderism, here, and a growing contingent of parents says their formerly normal children are being brainwashed into believing that they’re the opposite gender while away at school – and in some cases are actually getting hormonally and surgically altered without their parents’ knowledge or consent.