‘Quiet Men’ and Bamboo CagesThe Chinese regime has taken to heart the Leninist slogan,“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
By Thaddeus G. McCotter
January 14, 2022
On March 8, 1983, in his morally crystalline “evil empire” speech, President Ronald Reagan issued a clarion call for the end of the inhuman ideology of communism and its most inhumane practitioner, the Soviet Union:
Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Citing C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, Reagan focused the free world not only upon the end result of communism’s evil, but upon its originating locus:
The greatest evil is not done now . . . in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ . . . It is . . . not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result, but it is conceived and ordered; moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
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Today, as America and the free world confront the strategic enemy and rival model of governance that is genocidal Communist China, there are distinct differences in our approach to this new menace.
First, the good news. As in Reagan’s time, the vast majority of the American people understand the danger posed by genocidal Communist China’s rulers.
The bad news? There are now two sets of “quiet men” cosseted in “well-lighted offices” advancing the aims of the barbaric communist regime: Chinese communists and American capitalists.
Consider the recent comments by Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, who, Bloomberg reports, lauded Xi Jinping’s diktat of “common prosperity.” Groveling to remain in the genocidal regime’s good graces, Dalio argued Xi’s “common prosperity” would be just peachy in the United States where, due to an alleged decline in its “comparative advantages,” it presents a riskier market for investors than in Communist China. “Common prosperity is a good thing,” Dalio said. “It’s another way of saying ‘prosperity for most people.’”
No, it is just another euphemism for communism, one more weaponized slogan in the regime’s assault on the free world and the democratic ideal. And in the lamentably long line of those who would trade our liberty and security for their prosperity, as Rebeccah Heinrichs curtly and aptly notes Dalio isn’t exceptional. Dalio is just “Another one.”
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/14/quiet-men-and-bamboo-cages/
