We have the Modern "Red Guard" running checkpoints in MSP, vetting American citizens if they have affiliation with "ICE" or the Border patrol. This is dangerous, the local democratic leadership has surrendered leadership to the "Modern Red Guard" and they have hamstrung the police and other authorities. This has made the local government weak and ineffective, especially when you have elements of the local government leading the low level rebellion against the federal government. I understand the tightrope that President Trump is walking, if he uses the "Insurrection Act" against the rioters and assorted marxist, I believe that within a few weeks congress with the donks and squishy Rino's will try to "25th the President" and get him out of office. and especially right before the midterms, it would devastate the GOP and any successor that President Trump would recommend (Most Likely JD Vance). But this is going into a boiling point by this summer, I can see this spreading to all the other major cities like the Summer Of Love(TM) back in 2020 to celebrate the death the Saint of Fentanyl George Floyd. I have "Blogged in the Past" about the tearing down of traditional norms and values and trying to impose the "New Way". The soviets tried it with the belief in the "Modern Soviet Man" where they tried to remove all the traditional things that made Russia..Well Russia. They had mixed results. Well anyway We have this new crop of Bolsheviks trying again because they believe that they can make people "better" We as Traditional Americans are too independent for them. Communist don't believe in a higher power,
They believe in the state, the state and big government is their religion. THe State is Mother, the State is Father, the state will provide what you need....That is the core of their belief and in return, all you have to do is give the state total obedience. Well to us freedom loving people, that is a nonstarter, so we have a huge divide on the purpose of government in our lives.
Lessons from the past: THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED
On August 19, 1966 - students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed in China. The patriarch system in China had been created by the 1% and held down women, minorities, and the working class. The students cried out for a revolution and change. They launched the Cultural Revolution. Students put a red band around their arm to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and called for a change on old ideas that they called the FOUR OLDS. The Four Olds were: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.
The movement was supported by the Chinese media
Mass demonstrations and looting by the students ensued.
Statues were torn down
Chinese architecture was destroyed
Classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart and burned
Temples were desecrated.
The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked
The corpse of the 76th-generation Duke Yansheng was removed from its grave and hung naked from a tree
Wealthy homes were attacked and destroyed
Many families' long-kept genealogy books were burned to ashes.
Public leaders who were considered to be oppressive were tried by angry mobs and vigilantes
Three days later, August 22, 1966, a central directive was issued to stop police intervention. The police were disbanded in the city and the students formed a community solution called the RED GUARD. The RED GUARDS policed the communities and punished anyone who did not agree with their ideas. Even people that supported the movement, but had bad thoughts could be punished.
Though many Christians supported the movement in the beginning, they quickly became the number one target of the RED GUARDS and public trials were held to condemn them to death.
Many of those that were on board with the cause of the rebellion in the beginning saw that it was not really what they had signed up for, but by then it was too late. The power that the Red Guard wanted had already been given.
More people died during the cultural revolution in China than any war, famine, or natural disaster in the history of man.
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
On August 8, 1966, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party adopted the "Decision Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution." Three days earlier, Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of Beijing Normal University's girls school, had been beaten to death by her students, teenage Red Guards wielding nail-spiked clubs.
Her crime? Teaching traditional values.
By 1976, scholarly estimates suggest between 1.1 and 1.6 million Chinese lay dead, not from famine or foreign invasion, but from their own children, their own neighbors, their own revolution.
Mao understood what the Church Fathers knew: to possess a man's future, you must first destroy his past. St. Basil the Great wrote that the demons "wage war against us by means of our own thoughts." The Cultural Revolution weaponized this principle against an entire civilization.
Mao's order was simple, destroy the "Four Olds":
Old Customs
Old Culture
Old Habits
Old Ideas
Between 1966 and 1968, Red Guards burned 2.3 million books in Beijing alone. They smashed 4,922 of the city's 6,843 officially designated cultural sites. They forced Buddhist monks to marry. Nothing was too sacred, too ancient, too fundamental to escape the purge.
Now observe modern day America:
Old Customs challenged: The nuclear family faces unprecedented scrutiny in academic and policy circles. In California, legislators attempted to reshape custody law itself. AB 957 sought to make parental "affirmation" of gender identity a factor in determining child welfare, effectively pressuring parents to adopt state-preferred positions on their children's identity or risk custody consequences. Though Governor Newsom vetoed the bill in September 2023, citing concerns about the judicial branch's independence, the attempt reveals the ambition: to legally codify ideological compliance in the most intimate family decisions.
Old Culture contested: In 2020, amid nationwide protests, Native American activists including Nick Tilsen of the NDN Collective publicly labeled Mount Rushmore "a symbol of white supremacy" and called for its removal, comparing it to Confederate monuments. Major media outlets amplified these voices. While no government entity officially declared it such, the fact that America's presidential monument could be seriously discussed in such terms marks a dramatic shift. Meanwhile, curriculum controversies rage across school districts as communities battle over which historical figures and literature merit inclusion...debates that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago.
Old Habits criminalized: The American Psychological Association's 2019 guidelines labeled elements of "traditional masculinity ideology" including stoicism, competitiveness, and self-reliance, as "psychologically harmful." Though the guidelines sparked fierce backlash from scholars who questioned their scientific basis, they revealed how therapeutic institutions now view traditionally masculine virtues as pathologies requiring treatment.
Old Ideas abolished: In educational and corporate settings, concepts like "objective truth," "colorblindness," and "meritocracy" are increasingly framed as tools of oppression rather than ideals worth pursuing. When the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History briefly published materials suggesting that "rational thinking" and "hard work" were aspects of "whiteness," the backlash forced its removal, but the fact that such materials were created at all by a major institution speaks volumes.
The objective is nothing new. It's ancient. As St. Athanasius wrote, defending truth against the Arians: "They wish to obscure the truth." A people severed from their past become clay in the tyrant's hands.
In 1968, teachers at Peking University were forced to kneel on broken glass while students screamed accusations. The goal was never justice, it was psychological destruction through public humiliation and forced confession.
The ritual has returned, sanitized for Western consumption.
In February 2021, screenshots emerged from what a whistleblower claimed was Coca-Cola's mandatory diversity training, featuring slides titled "try to be less white" with instructions to "be less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant."
The course, created by Robin DiAngelo and hosted on LinkedIn Learning, was authentic. Coca-Cola denied it was required training, stating it was merely available through their LinkedIn Learning access.
Whether mandatory or simply available, the existence of such material in corporate diversity curricula, and the company's initial willingness to make it accessible, demonstrates how mainstream these concepts have become.
Similar patterns appear across corporate America. Major companies conduct training sessions asking employees to examine their "privilege," rank themselves by identity categories, and publicly acknowledge their position in "systems of oppression." The mechanism echoes the old Chinese struggle sessions.
Identify the oppressor class, encourage public introspection and confession, frame silence as complicity, and demand demonstration of ideological alignment.
St. John Chrysostom warned: "The devil does not ask for the whole; he is content if he gains a little."
Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, wrote from Mussolini's prison in 1930: "In the West, the State was only an outer ditch... there was a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks behind." He meant our churches, our schools, and our culture. He called for a "Long March through the Institutions."
The march has made stunning progress.
Academia tilts heavily left, surveys show progressive faculty vastly outnumber conservatives, particularly at elite institutions. Media consolidation means a handful of corporations control the vast majority of American news outlets. Even churches split over "progressive Christianity" and "liberation theology"...the same theological framework that armed Communist guerrillas in Latin America.
This is not conspiracy, it's observable reality. Ideas flow from universities to media to policy, and those ideas increasingly frame American life through the lens of power, oppression, and identity. The Communist Party USA's modern platform explicitly champions identity-based activism, not because they control these movements, but because they recognize fertile ground.
They preach equity. Not equality. It's not about equal opportunity but equal outcome enforced by authority.
It's Harrison Bergeron turned into policy.
The Red Guards succeeded because millions believed resistance was futile, that history had a direction, that the revolution was inevitable. They stood silent while their society and culture were destroyed, hoping the mob would pass them by.
St. Maximus the Confessor had his tongue cut out and his right hand severed for refusing to compromise with imperial heresy. He died in exile. The heretics died too...but their names are forgotten, while Maximus is called "saint." The Church remembers those who stood firm.
The Cultural Revolution isn't coming. Elements of it...the attack on tradition, the struggle sessions, the ideological conformity, the severing of past from present...are already here and adapted for Western consumption. They will advance until people of conviction plant their feet and say "No further."
