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Communist States of America

Last week I wrote about warnings Xi Van Fleet raised in her first book, "Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning." Xi describes herself as "Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution,...

Last week I wrote about warnings Xi Van Fleet raised in her first book, "Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning." Xi describes herself as "Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution, defender of liberty." She was born in China, lived through the Cultural Revolution, and was sent to work in the countryside at the age of 16. After Mao's death, she was able to study English in America and has lived in the United States since 1986.

Xi is truly an inspirational person with an extraordinary story to tell. She began her story when she was still a young girl in China demonstrating an awareness and understanding of government and politics well beyond her years.

Like other children her age, she was taught to follow Mao's writings without question. Yet, she writes, "However, there is one of Mao's quotations I did question: 'Whatever the enemy opposes, we shall support. Whatever the enemy supports, we shall oppose.' I couldn't help thinking to myself, 'What if our enemy loves candy; am I supposed to hate it?' My doubts would live inside my own head, never escaping through my lips for anyone to hear."

I laughed out loud reading her childish question that mocks the tormented reasoning of Democrats and the media whose anchor is weighed by their utter hatred of President Trump. In "MAO'S America," Xi clearly documented how the woke left in America has repeated the same fallacies in judgment that Chinese communists made in their own opposition to nationalist policies.

Xi boldly wrote her warning to Americans. "In China and in every country that has ever been under a Communist regime, history has proven that these countries have been incubators for rebellion, chaos, and violence. The parallels between the America of today and the China of the mid-1960s haunt me. These parallels, which are the hallmarks of cultural Marxism, will destroy America as we know it, as they have every country across history. If we do not stop this now, you can bet your life that America will inevitably become a Communist-like state, top to bottom."

China has a rich history in Christianity due to sacrifices of many missionaries in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Christianity was one of the first targets of the Marxists in China. Today America is enjoying a resurgence of Christianity in Generation X Gen Y and Gen Z. Christians of all ages thank God for this unexpected renewal. Sadly, woke folks among us are just not that interested. That's the Marxist agenda: divide and conquer. Mock Christianity, the Bible, God and Jesus Christ.

Meanwhile, Chinese Communists have gained much geopolitical power while Americans have fought wars internationally as well as within. Biden & Co. invited chaos and conflict by opening the borders. Chaos and conflict are foundations pitting Marxism against common sense and law and order."

"Beijing is increasingly emerging as a key enabler of global conflicts, determined to reshape the international order on its own terms. Since 2023, Houthi terrorists have repeatedly attacked U.S. Navy warships and commercial shipping vessels. It has been reported that China's Chang Guang Satellite Technology Company is directly supporting these terrorist operations."

America's Progressive Marxists oppose what we support and support what we oppose. That's how Marxists conquer free people. Americans must defend liberty united.