Panic sets in on the left

American Thinker ^ | March 28, 2011 | Steve McCann

[jazusamo]

Two recent headline stories: 1) Chinese police have arrested prominent writer Ran Yunfei for challenging the ruling Communist Party; the latest in a string of arrests in a deepening crackdown on dissent. 2) the George Soros-funded Media Matters has announced open guerilla warfare and sabotage of Fox News and various conservative blog sites. They plan to intimidate, through character assassination and opposition research, the executives and personalities at all levels of these organizations.

China has become the symbol to many Americans of a monolithic financial and economic giant with an insatiable appetite for power. The fact of the matter is that China's greatest dilemma is that it has become a financial and economic powerhouse in a comparatively short time with a governing structure that is anathema to a capitalist system which inherently promotes freedom and individuality.

No one group is aware of that more than the current Chinese leadership. The recent upheavals in the Middle East and the call by many Chinese pro-democracy activists for their own "Jasmine Revolution" (the term for the Tunisian rebellion) have the Chinese leaders initiating crackdowns that border on paranoia. They have arrested and detained hundreds of lawyers, bloggers and dissidents in China's harshest crackdown in years.

The Chinese leadership also knows that the economic miracle with which they legitimize power is in danger. The country is experiencing a massive real estate bubble and unchecked food inflation. Many provincial officials are fueling this phenomenon by selling more and more land, stirring up resentment in the process. Farmers who protest are tormented by police officers and government thugs, or even thrown into jail without being charged.

Despite these risks, thousands of Chinese rebel against communist authority year after year, almost always in protest against the same chronic abuses: corruption, land grabbing, low wages, food prices and an ever increasing resentment toward the Chinese Ruling Class and their extravagant lifestyle.

As with all totalitarian regimes and organizations in history the Communist Chinese are no different, instead of looking to expand freedom and become more inclusive as way of combating future problems, they have embarked on new repressive measures and a massive surveillance and intimidation program.

It is apparent that the leadership of China is not confident in the future and secure in the Communist Party's ability to maintain an iron-fisted control of the 1.3 Billion people that make up modern day China. The current paranoia reveals many cracks in the image they portray to the world and as with so many despotic regimes before them; time is not on their side.

That same paranoia is sweeping the Left in the United States. The hegemony of the media they enjoyed for decades is crumbling around them. The rise of the Tea Party movement, the myriad of conservative web sites, the dominance of right-wing talk radio and Fox News combined with the public's awareness of the imminent financial disaster facing the country and the need to cut-off spending to special interest groups has inspired panic among the die-hards on the Left.

As so much of their power is derived directly from spending on government programs and indirectly from government workers union dues, many on the Left will see a major erosion in their lifestyle if the conservatives fully take over the levers of government in Washington D.C.

The Left is no longer confident in their ability to maintain control of the message and the political class. Thus, they turn to the only weapons they have: intimidation by causing chaos (see: unions and Wisconsin et al) and blackmail. These tactics will used with greater frequency and the war of words will become more vitriolic; but it is a certain sign they are losing because by reverting to these actions they reveal their true nature and goals to the public which now has the alternative media the Left so despises.

[cripplecreek]

Panic will cause stupid knee jerk mistakes.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The public had no taste for Leftist street theater of the 60’s in the 60’s. Even less so now.

[Siena Dreaming]

many on the Left will see a major erosion in their lifestyle if the conservatives fully take over the levers of government in Washington D.C.

This is what it's all about these days.

Many on the left know now that their arguments are not logical...now it's all about hanging on for dear life to their incomes...

[Steve Van Doorn]

The left has the great knack of turning things around on us.
Some of their greatest examples:
- National Socialist straight from Marxist theory became right wing.
- Extreme Racist policies of the left later become right wing.

Don't underestimate these thugs.

[mmercier]

Panic is the nature and enabler of the political left.

Without the ability to create and capitalize on chaos they have nothing to offer.

They have known this for Milena.

[Obadiah]

China only began to really be an economic powerhouse when the United States granted it most favored nation trading status under George H.W. Bush.

[Chaguito]

Coming our way?

Despite these risks, thousands of ChineseAmerican patriots rebel against communist authorityRepublicat rule year after year, almost always in protest against the same chronic abuses: corruption, land grabbing, low wages, food prices and an ever increasing resentment toward the ChineseElitist U.S. Ruling Class and their extravagant lifestyle.

[lurk]

The Left never accepts losses for what they are. They are unable to accept that their model is a failure.

This is just their signal to become more dangerous.

[NTHockey]

>>They plan to intimidate, through character assassination and opposition research, the executives and personalities at all levels of these organizations.<<

The irony of it drips like rendered fat. George Soros, an unrepentant Nazi collaborator, is going to assassinate the chacter of others.

How does one get a FOIA request for his naturalization papers and his POE Ellis Island?

[mmercier]

Richard M. Nixon

[PATRIOT1876]

Note to Left:

“All your base are belong to us!”

[blondee123]

Well, they have at least one on their side at Fox, they can take Shep with them, no need to intimidate him, he’s already one of them!

[MNDude]

Unfortunately, over here on the right, I’m not too happy about our GOP leader’s wimpy spending cuts or backing off campaign promises.

[RexBeach]

“It snows like this in Chicago!” -Richard Nixon while touring The Great Wall of China

[jazusamo]

Don't underestimate these thugs

Good advice. Hopefully Media Matters is biting off more than they can handle, they and Soros could wind up licking their wounds.

[jazusamo]

We’ll soon know what the outcome will be and he folds the TP isn’t going away but he will, IMO.

[blueunicorn6]

Soros was giving a speech when he took off his shoe and started pounding it on the podium screaming, “Ve vill bury you!”

[Maverick68]

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[KamperKen]

"These tactics will used with greater frequency and the war of words will become more vitriolic.."

The Left will take it beyond just a war of words and their agent provocateurs will start their Reichstag Fire.