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First some history on aggressive cultural revolution:
"Mao used identity politics. He created 10 identities in China, five he labeled red for communist, and five he labeled black for fascist. And he categorized people into these identity categories. What they are doesn't really matter. They were things like landlord and rich farmer and things like 'this right winger is a bad category in and of itself.' All of them bad, 'bad influences.' That's another one: 'bad influences.'
You could be a bad influence for just thinking the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing at any time or because the government decides it doesn't like you. These are the bad categories. And if you are in a bad category, very importantly, your children [are in] a bad category by default. So they create a social pressure for your children to identify as revolutionaries. At which point they get a red identity, a communist identity, a good identity and they get rewarded for it.
And this is how the youth led the revolution in ...
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
