The Rise of America’s Little Generals

They were told to destroy anything considered as “old” – old ideas, customs, culture and habits.

I remember as a kid seeing news clips of the “Red Guards” in Communist China. The Red Guard was also known as Chairman Mao’s “little generals”. The leader of this communist country knew that he had to get the children thinking the way he needed them to think as adults in order for Communism to grow in China.

These children believed that they would die to protect Chairman Mao and many did die in this period. He enlisted them at grade school levels and they were told to destroy anything considered as “old” – old ideas, customs, culture and habits.

Called the “Cultural Revolution” (1966-1976), it was the slow death of China as a great country.

The Cultural Revolution brought oppression. Schoolteachers were persecuted, “enemies” of the state were killed, food was controlled, news was controlled, and families were controlled. At one point in time, families were allowed to have only one child; many baby girls were killed (after birth) because boys were more “valuable”. It is estimated that tens of millions of people were persecuted and the death toll is estimated to twenty million.

The sad thing about the Cultural Revolution was it came after what was called “The Great Leap Forward” (1958-1962) a movement in China led by the Communist Party of China. The purpose was to transform the country from an agrarian (relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land) economy to a Communist society. What ultimately happened was that thirty million people died from starvation because of the governmental controls placed on the agricultural outputs of the country.

Influenced by the ideals of the Cultural Revolution in China, Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s Communist regime implemented similar policies. It is estimated that one to two million people died from starvation, overwork or execution under his regime (1975-1979).

The Khmer Rouge was one of the most brutal Communist regimes in the 20th Century. Until 1979, they executed those who represented the “old society”. This included academics, capitalists, religious monks, and former soldiers.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong. The purpose of the book was to distill the voluminous products of Mao’s mind and pen into a small volume that even a semi-literate peasant or new soldier could read, memorize, or set to music. The aphorisms therein were plucked out of context and strung together without much regard for chronology: if it was Mao’s thought, it must be coherent, went the editorial idea.

The book was used during the Cultural Revolution not simply to streamline ideology and ideological uniformity, but as a weapon to be used against perceived “class enemies” or “counter-revolutionaries.”

It’s interesting to me that in Communist society the young are taught, in state controlled schools, to hate the old society and anything that represents it. Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong was one of the texts handed to middle school students in China in 1966.

Sounds kind of like what we have going on here in the American public school system.

The difference between indoctrination and education is that indoctrination closes the mind and education opens the mind.

Education in its purest form includes self-directed learning, project based learning and mentoring. These concepts open the doors of intellectual exploration and give the student an ability to look at the world with a variety of spectacles.

Indoctrination instills a set of habits and beliefs that align with an ideology or political agenda. You’ll see this in educational institutions in Communist and Socialist countries where the curriculum is closely aligned with what the ruling party dictates.

You can see a similar parallel in America, can’t you?

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And how about this little general?

Thomas Crooks, first to attempt the assassination of Donald Trump.

In 2022, when he was a high school student, Crooks appeared in a commercial for a few seconds in a Black Rock commercial years before he attempted to assassinate former president Donald Trump. Remember, Black Rock CEO Larry Fink oversees assets worth $8.6 trillion and has been called the “face of ESG” which is the umbrella movement that includes CEI (Corporate Equality Index).

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The cult of the transgender in the American schools is another avenue where old cultural norms are intentionally being destroyed.

All of these areas of assault on traditional mores(traditional customs and ways of behaving) create an Orwellian (societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society) world where you’re told that what you see is true, whether it is or not.

In China the little generals were told to destroy anything cultural that represented China before The Great Leap Forward (1958). American little generals are taught and socialized to destroy religion, morality, family structure and American history. They are rewriting our history at an incredible pace.

Since the late 80’s, the religion of social justice has crept into our culture via the public school system and popular culture via social media. With all of the digital devices and social media outlets, younger generations have the ability to retreat from “in real life” relationships and obligations.

What this culture creates are young people who are increasingly used to spending more and more time alone in their virtual pursuits, that infinite cycle of social media drama, outrage, many young people are spending less time focused on real life tasks.

This has created younger generations that are detached from time and place. Younger generations whose only cultural references relate to their devices, pop culture, and social media, one that knows less and less about their own place in American history and culture, their place in their community.

And if these younger Americans are left to their own digital worlds, they won't find self-satisfaction and contentment because they are not participating in any form of traditional culture.

This sort of citizenry is easy to manipulate.

In Asian Communist societies, they executed those who represented the “old society”.

Here in America we have “OK Boomer” (those born between 1946 and 1964 or 60-78 years old as of 2024).

Not quite the same, but one wonders with the vitriol some young people spew.

Previous generations criticized their elders, but didn’t outwardly hate members of those generations.

We respected elders because they had more life experience.

Post boomer generations have been taught and socialized to not only hate, but look forward to the demise of the older generations, specifically the boomers.

I’ve seen this as offhanded snarky remarks on social media or direct attacks in comments but also in full length articles.

Nine times out of ten, the snarky, uninformed comments show the rise of the little generals in America. Uninformed because many just repeat what’s been heard in their echo chamber.

Millennials remain the most liberal and Democratic of the adult generations. The Generation Gap in American Politics

The Millennial generation(1981-1996, 28-43 years old - my edit) is forging a distinctive path into adulthood, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry. Millennials in Adulthood — Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends

Meanwhile…

The generation born between 1946 and 1964 is widely blamed for causing most of the major problems of the country and the world, especially by young adults who firmly believe their lives (and the planet itself) have been seriously compromised by boomers’ allegedly irresponsible and profligate ways.

here are ten commonly held beliefs about baby boomers along with facts suggesting they are not true.

Doesn’t this sound a little like the cultural revolution in China?

But wait, there’s more.

How old are these people?

Are they a subset or a majority of the population?

These are the some of the faces of the future in America.

I submit, a lot like many, many of the faces of the future.

They are humans who believe if they don’t like what you’re saying, you should be silenced, and that’s dangerous for any society as we saw in China’s cultural revolution.

All have been taught or socialized to hate cultural norms, but at the same time given no real guidance or purpose.

They certainly don’t want guidance from older generations.

Who will they die for?

What will they stand for when the world is theirs?

Twenty years ago, on an early date with my husband we were discussing socialization as an element of schooling (he was fascinated that I was homeschooling), I threw out the idea that brick and mortar schools were in the business of dumbing down the population:

“It’s the systematic dumbing down of a population.”

“That will never happen, humans aren’t that stupid.”

And yet here you have it in today’s culture.

I repeat.

Who will they die for?

What will they stand for when the world is theirs?

Top left to right: Adolf Hitler, Hugo Chávez, Pol Pot. Middle left to right: Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stalin. Bottom left to right: Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Idi Amin.

I can tell you right now.

They are followers and whole cultures have been swallowed up by “leaders” who are perfectly fine with a follower citizenry.

Do you recognize these world “leaders”?

Regimes that eliminated old society culture for a brutal socialist or communist society.

They were/are societies that eliminated free speech, destroyed their economy, made citizens dependent on the government, ripped apart families.

The bedrock of American culture is the family unit.

How has current culture destroyed the family unit?

Wasn’t the family unit destroyed in China’s cultural revolution?

Our government has incentivized the idea that they will replace the man of the family by putting social service programs in place.

According to the data center of kidscount.org, research shows that in 2015 66% or 6,333,000 African-American kids were parented by a single parent. Of course, this doesn’t mean that both parents are not sharing the responsibility of raising their child, but at this rate, there is an alarming number of children not having a biological two-parent home experience.

There is an ongoing dispute whether children who are raised in single-parent homes have a greater disadvantage than children raised in two-parent homes. According to the Census Bureau from 1960 and 2013, African –American children who lived in single-parent homes more than doubled from 22% to 55%. The same research showed that white children from single-parent homes tripled from 7% to 22%. Some would say, yes, there are disadvantages for both parent and child. Black Family Structure in Decline Since the 1960s: The Home Effect

Fertility in the U.S. has been on the decline since the end of the post-World War II baby boom, resulting in smaller families. In the mid-1970s, a 40% plurality of mothers who had reached the end of their childbearing years had given birth to four or more children. Now, a similar share (41%) of mothers at the end of their childbearing years has had two children, and just 14% have had four or more children. (2015) The American family today

The U.S. fertility rate reached a historic low in 2023, with a growing share of women ages 25 to 44 having never given birth.

And the share of U.S. adults younger than 50 without children who say they are unlikely to ever have kids rose 10 percentage points between 2018 and 2023 (from 37% to 47%), according to a Pew Research Center survey. The Experiences of U.S. Adults Who Don’t Have Children.

The creep of current ideology through academia, the government, society and now through corporate America is leading to a frightening future for the country, unless we can reverse the course of the disease.

This current ideology comes from the liberal or left side of our culture, Democrats.

The democrat party of today wants to create a bunch of “misfit toys” and malcontents (meaning not satisfied or content with current conditions or circumstance).

They promote that abortion should be available at any time during a pregnancy, often at the expense of the taxpayers.

Through radical feminism, they have taught that single parent, female led families are what is required and means you are a successful feminist.

They tell us anyone can have children, including men.

They tell us illegal immigration builds stronger communities and they offer pretty healthy compensation and free services to these people who break our laws at the expense of American citizens.

They’ve told several generations that climate change, or whatever the current buzz-phrase is, that the planet will be destroyed, which in turn causes them to decide not have children. (‘It’s almost shameful to want to have children’) This sort of decision made early in life can’t be reversed once they discover they’ve been lied to. There will be no one to take care of them when they are elderly.

They silence anyone who disagrees with these ideologies.

Ultimately, these ideologies will be put to a simple test:

• Are conditions for me and my family, my community improving or not improving?

• Do I have enough of my paycheck to support my family and pay my bills?

• Are cities safer or less safe?

• Are students learning to read or not learning to read?

• Is my retirement money growing, stagnating or decreasing?

The leftist regime can only suppress the answers for so long. The average citizen will be able to feel the truth intuitively, even if he is temporarily deprived of the language for articulating it.