{"id":9805,"date":"2023-10-09T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/i-survived-mao-hillary-clintons-call-for-deprogramming-of-trump-supporters-is-no-joke-its-alarming\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:03:32","slug":"i-survived-mao-hillary-clintons-call-for-deprogramming-of-trump-supporters-is-no-joke-its-alarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/i-survived-mao-hillary-clintons-call-for-deprogramming-of-trump-supporters-is-no-joke-its-alarming\/","title":{"rendered":"I survived Mao. Hillary Clinton\u2019s call for \u2018deprogramming\u2019 of Trump supporters is no joke, it\u2019s alarming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">In a recent CNN interview, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for \u2018formal deprogramming\u2019 of what she terms as the \u2018MAGA cult.\u2019 Formal? Did she mean government-sponsored deprogramming?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">This is not the first time the left is calling for deprogramming of the right.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., proposed using taxpayer funds to deprogram white supremacists, a code name for conservatives and MAGA Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The list of others calling for deprogramming also includes Katie Couric, former CBS News and NBC \u2018Today\u2019 host, who told Bill Maher in 2021: \u2018And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Why such a call for deprogramming?<\/p>\n<p>After the thorough demonization of Donald Trump, the left has been totally dismayed that his supporters still stand behind him with unwavering conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The only option left for the left is to demonize all conservatives and MAGA Republicans as extremists, as white supremacists, or as threats to \u2018our democracy\u2019\u00a0\u2014in other words, enemies of the state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still vivid in everyone\u2019s minds are the inflammatory words from President Joe Biden\u2019s speech in Philadelphia in September 2022, condemning Republicans with words like \u2018extremists\u2019 and \u2018threatens the very republic\u2019 with the satanic dark bloody red background behind him as he spoke, flanked by two Marines.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, as the 2024 election draws closer, Newsweek reported this week that the FBI has \u2018quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump\u2019s army of MAGA followers.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The left means serious business. This is how the \u2018enemies of the state\u2019 should be dealt with: deprogram and suppression. And this is exactly what happened in China, the country controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) where I spent the first 26 years of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I want to take you back to Mao\u2019s China in the late 50s before I was born and before the Chinese Cultural Revolution. At that time there was a lesser-known political campaign led by Mao, called the Anti-Rightist campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, Mao launched a political campaign beautifully sold as the campaign to \u2018Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom and One Hundred Schools Contend\u2019 to encourage everyone to criticize and make suggestions to the Chinese Communist Party. Convinced by the CCP\u2019s sincerity, many na\u00efve people\u2014especially intellectuals\u2014started to speak their mind by making suggestions. Suggestions included things like other political parties being allowed to share power (the PRC was created on the alliances of multi-political parties), allow free speech, and reduce the number of non-stop political campaigns\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The campaign quickly turned into an Anti-Rightists campaign. Anyone who voiced unwelcome suggestions was labeled a \u2018rightist,\u2019 including those who had been quiet throughout the process because silence was defiance according to the CCP logic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was in common among those rightists? They expressed \u2018incorrect\u2019 ideas and opinions. Hauntingly similar to Biden\u2019s words in this century, that his opponents\u2019 views were \u2018extremism\u2019 and \u2018threaten [sic] the very [people\u2019s] republic.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Soon quotas were given out to each workplace, to find and identify rightists in their midst. Many people were tagged with the rightist label so that the CCP\u2019s quota could be satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, people found themselves labeled as enemies of the state. Off they were sent to Thought Reform Camps, the Chinese version of the Soviet Gulags to be \u2018deprogrammed\u2019 through hard labor. Untold numbers of these rightists perished in those Gulags. The CCP\u2019s own statistics indicate that more than 500,000 people were deemed as rightists. But many historians believe it is more than a million. In Beijing University alone, 589 students and 110 faculty were deemed as rightists. Seven of them were executed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We later learned from some of the survivors on how the Thought Reform, or \u2018formal deprogramming\u2019 in Clinton\u2019s words, was carried out in those camps. In addition to backbreaking hard labor and starvation, these rightists had to endure political study and struggle sessions every night where they were to study Mao and Marxist works and carry out \u2018criticism and self-criticism.\u2019 Criticism was to condemn others and self-criticism was to condemn oneself. The goal was to thoroughly deprogram\/reform\/remold one\u2019s mind by removing all the old and incorrect thoughts and replacing them with the correct Marxist and Maoist thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic that \u2018deprogramming\u2019 really means \u2018programming,\u2019 both in CCP\u2019s China and here in America. It really means to program the mind of individuals with a new ideology that is anti-tradition and anti-religion.<\/p>\n<p>Where does \u2018programming\u2019 take place? It takes place in the mind-shaping institutions like schools and universities for the young, and mass media for the rest. The Chinese rightists were those who received their education before the CCP took over China. In their mind were the traditional values.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"m video-player\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In America, the MAGA \u2018extremists\u2019 are those who have survived government schools, Marxist-run universities, and corporate media. They escaped the \u2018programming,\u2019 and therefore they need to be \u2018re-programmed\u2019 according to the regime\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In a February 9, 2021 article on Axios.com, author Kyle Daly addressed the question on \u2018How to deprogram America\u2019s extremists.\u2019 He was told by experts that \u2018It will take an all-out national effort to dismantle the radicalization pipeline that has planted conspiracy theories in the heads of millions of Americans\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Daly described some key measures as:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Keeping extremists out of key institutions (which sounds like a purge to me).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Providing help for those who have embraced dangerous ideologies (which sounds like a \u2018rescue mission,\u2019 using the CCP\u2019s terminology).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A crackdown on the online presence of unwanted ideas including those in social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A \u2018Marshall Plan against domestic extremism\u2019; And sure enough, today the FBI has a plan to deal with the \u2018MAGA extremists.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Private and public-private partnership programs \u2014 including both federal and state government\u2014to create anti-extremism programs including a national hotline\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The left does admit that it is difficult to \u2018deprogram\u2019 the \u2018MAGA Extremists.\u2019 In a 2021 Vanity Fair article with the headline, \u2018So Many Great, Educated, Functional People Were Brainwashed\u2019: Can Trump\u2019s Cult of Followers Be Deprogrammed?\u2019 the author interviewed Steven Hassan, a former Moonie cult member and author of \u2018The Cult of Trump.\u2019 One of Hassan\u2019s suggestions is a friends and family deprogramming approach with how-to instructions on how gain or regain their trust in order to start the \u2018persuasion.\u2019 By comparison, CCP also used the family-friend approach by pressuring them to cut ties with the rightists.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Hassan says that he had the most success in deprograming Trump supporters by sharing examples with them of Chinese Communist Party brainwashing. Llittle did he know that he himself turns out to be the product of Mao-style brainwashing!<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to China. Many of the surviving rightists revealed that the \u2018deprogramming\u2019 ordeal helped them to see the true, evil nature of communism and the CCP. Keep in mind that these rightists were the products of the old educational system before the CCP took over China in 1949.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 1966, the beginning of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution. There were hardly any rightists left by that time. Seventeen years (1949-1966) of indoctrination by government schools and universities had created the \u2018correctly programmed\u2019 new leftist generations. They were Mao\u2019s Red Guards who carried out the Chinese Cultural Revolution that destroyed China, and in the process, themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The Cultural Revolution in America is, after all, a war over the minds of the American people. The question is, what program will win: traditional American values enshrined in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence or progressive values rooted in cultural Marxism and communism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Xi Van Fleet describes herself as \u2018Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution, defender of liberty.\u2019 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\u2019s death she was able to go to college to study English and has lived in the United States since 1986. In 2021, she delivered a school board speech in Loudoun County, Virginia against Critical Race Theory that went viral and ignited national conservative media attention. She now devotes her time and energies full time to warning about the parallels between Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution in China and what\u2019s unfolding in America today. She is the author of the forthcoming book \u2018Mao\u2019s America: A Survivor\u2019s Warning\u2019 (Center Street, October 31).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent CNN interview, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for \u2018formal deprogramming\u2019 of what she terms as the \u2018MAGA cult.\u2019 Formal? Did she mean government-sponsored deprogramming? This is not the first time the left is calling for deprogramming of the right. In 2021, Rep. 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