Chinese dissident warns Americans: You’re already in the authoritarian state...you just don’t know it

FOX ^ | 11/15/2021 | Lindsay Kornick

[Phoenix8]

Chinese dissenter and artist Ai Weiwei warned that political correctness has begun to show shades of similarities to Mao Zedong’s infamous Cultural Revolution in China.

Weiwei sat down for an interview Friday with PBS reporter Margaret Hoover on "Firing Line" to discuss authoritarianism in China. During the discussion, Hoover noted a quote from his book when he referenced former President Donald Trump.

[Phoenix8]

The hour is later than what we think—well I should say later than what most low information voters think.

[Kid Shelleen]

Margaret Hoover seems like a nice enough person and not like the typical legacy media jackal but its sad that she immediately associates Trump with authoritarian completely ignoring flagrant power grabs by the left.

[Phoenix8]

True that

[HighSierra5]

Authoritarian? That’s lightweight compared to the insidious Orwellian nightmare that has descended on our great nation and world for that matter.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Socialism continues to infect the West as it seduces the minds of the lazy, foolish, greedy and power-hungry.

Weapons in the hands of the productive is our only salvation.

Lock and Load, Patriots.

[Texas Fossil]

PBS really sucks.

No matter how gentle, polite and poised the interviewer is, it it is still PBS, aka “Public Radio International”.

Intellectuals? Those who are self proclaimed Intellectuals are not. Those who are, don’t have the smugness and arrogance that the “self proclaimed” Intellectuals do.

[MtnClimber]

YOU CAN NOT COMPLY YOUR WAY OUT OF TYRANNY

[neverevergiveup]

So true.

[Lockbox]

She jumped on the concept that Trump was an authoritarian and was swatted down hard! She acted like she did not understand and moved on, Oscar winning performance....

[NorseViking]

“In England, America, France, Germany the malicious nature of the governments is disguised so masterfully, that the people of these nations, pointing at Russia, are naively convinced that all the events taking place in Russia are unique to it, wherefore they are enjoying the ultimate freedom and their conditions don’t need improvement. That makes them the most hopeless sort of slaves - the slaves who don’t realize that they are slaves and are proud of their slavery”.

Leo Tolstoy, 1905.

[Phoenix8]

Wow

[bert]

I have been posting that fact for some time now

America as a union of states is gone.

America has disintegrated into a tyranny of a coalition of City States that actually govern.

The cities control the states and thus the nation

[metmom]

Some of us already know that.

[Kid Shelleen]

She did not understand the irony that Trump used Twitter to get around media censorship which is why he was banned by Twitter.

[Lockbox]

She definitely didn’t wanna go down that road.

[x]

"If you are authoritarian, you have to have a system supporting you. You cannot just be an authoritarian by yourself. But certainly, in the United States, with today’s condition, you can easily have an authoritarian. In many ways, you’re already in the authoritarian state. You just don’t know it," Weiwei said.

He gets it.

That is something -- two very important things -- almost all commentators have missed.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Oh we know it.

[PIF]

A North Korean defector said last week that the US is becoming North Korea.

[Big Red Badger]

We’ve been Warned.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Yep