Please bear with me -- and thank you if you do manage to read this post to the end (and even more thanks if you choose to respond.). I will try to make this as short as possible. Either people will know what I am talking about, or they won't, and I am not going to turn this into some kind of educational lecture, which I am certainly not qualified to do, anyway. The title refers to what went on during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. So now that being said:
There have been several (many) threads lately about CRT Theory, loss of freedom of speech, government spying, etc. Many posters have come to the conclusion that all of the above ties into some kind of plot (Communist, Socialist, whatever) to destroy the U.S. as we know it and silence all of the conservatives who don't agree with the policy positions of the current administration.
(Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the U.S. announced a "get tough" policy yesterday in a 27-minute speech that asks people to report anyone they suspect of possibly being radical terrorists -- and he was NOT just referring to possible Islamic terrorists. He said the worst threat of domestic terrorism comes from white supremacists, making no mention of BLM
violent protesters, for example, who
might also be considered domestic terrorists. Here is the transcript of the speech.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts...ech-transcript )
Now, as some of you may know, there are many "conspiracy theories" out there who have predicted this kind of thing for years -- even decades. I quite frankly think that
most of these theories are literally not believable.
So now, in an attempt to look at this issue
logically and rationally, I am asking you to explain to me what would the
point be of silencing (or even rounding up or even exterminating, if one believes the craziest theories) all the dissidents, many of whom have essential jobs that keep the U.S. economy going? I am talking about those people who are skilled and/or educated and who do NOT depend on the government to provide any kind of financial assistance.
What would be gained by having the great majority of the U.S. population comprised of unskilled and uneducated people? Such a goal makes absolutely no sense to me at all. Does it to you?
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