Democracy with Democrat Characteristics; The Democrat Party imitates the CCP
The Chinese Communist Party and the US Democrat Party are big on unified messaging (also known as propaganda), lockstep voting, and democracy according to their own specific definitions. The parallels are eerie.
Let us examine them.
UNIFIED MESSAGING
In Red China, the short-term and long-term narratives of Xi Jinping and his henchmen are amplified daily by state-run media, CCP bureaucrats, and wolf warrior diplomats. Communist euphemisms such as “community with a shared future,” “common prosperity,” “core interests,” and “indivisibility of security” are endlessly repeated to browbeat Chinese citizens and psychologically condition them to accept CCP diktats without resistance. Perhaps the most laughable euphemism is the communists’ claim that their one-party system is a “whole process people’s democracy.”
All of these malleable phrases are Orwellian and arbitrarily defined by the communists to shape public opinion to achieve political and especially psychological objectives in accordance with Mao Zedong’s “Three Warfares” strategy. Relentless and consistent messaging is one of the propagandist’s most effective tools used to influence people, and the CCP are masters at it.
In the US, the Democrat Party has a similar unified messaging strategy, especially when there is a Democrat in the Oval Office. This is no surprise because many progressive Democrats have been schooled in Maoist thought during their college years. For example, Anita Dunn, a senior advisor to Joe Biden, once referred to Mao as “one of her favorite political philosophers,” as noted here. Apparently, others in the White House view Mao favorably, too, as radical Maoist activist Yuri Kochiyama, who praised Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, was honored by the White House back in March during Women’s History Month, as noted here.
Thus, Democrats have adapted Mao’s Three Warfares to their own use in the US, especially the elements of media warfare (influencing public opinion) and legal warfare (providing the legal context for Democrat efforts to change the US constitutional Republic that they call “lawfare”).
The Democrats’ daily narrative and associated talking points are routinely dispensed by the White House and Democrat congressional leaders, including via the WH press secretary’s daily briefings to the WH press corps, and echoed by sympathetic (if not sycophantic) media who often use the identical phrases and words in those talking points, as explained here. The Democrat-media complex doesn’t use incarceration or reeducation or other harsh methods to keep their cadre in line like the CCP does, but there are plenty of carrots and sticks applied to their media accomplices behind the scenes to ensure conformity to Democrat narratives, e.g., intimidating phone calls, promises of future interviews (and off the record meetings), invitations to insider meetings (and here), etc.
LOCKSTEP VOTING
The CCP captures the annual trophy for “most lockstep votes cast,” as the various “votes” taken by the Politburo and National People’s Congress are virtually by acclamation with minimal if any dissenting votes cast. All of these people are lifelong communists who believe that the CCP is the rightful ruling class in China.
CCP members are the “first among equals” at all levels of Chinese government, including national, provincial, prefecture, and county, all the way down to towns and villages. The so-called “party secretaries” outrank the government officials at every level of government, as noted here. The only candidates for political office are CCP-approved, whether members of the CCP or from tiny political parties that are thoroughly penetrated and controlled by the CCP. Political dissent is illegal in communist China and dealt with harshly by the state’s internal security apparatus. Whatever the CCP wishes to implement in the way of policy is thus approved without any real resistance from Chinese citizens.
The Democrat Party can only look upon the CCP with admiration regarding unified voting although Democrats in Congress lately have done a good job in voting as a bloc without defections on key legislation during the Biden administration. One example was the passage of the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” on a party-line vote. Senate confirmation to the US Supreme Court of Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Democrat senators voting in lockstep to impeach President Trump are other good examples.
Democrats are increasingly unified on all of the major issues and policy objectives, including immigration (they are for continuation of Biden’s open-border policies), abortion (as rabid pro-abortionists, this is perhaps the single unifying issue among Democrats), climate alarmism (all congressional Democrats voted for the thinly disguised Green New Deal provisions that made up a significant part of the Inflation Reduction Act), and voting rights (they don’t support election integrity laws, and not a single Democrat has supported full forensic audits of elections in any state).
DEMOCRACY DEFINED
As far as Xi’s claim that China is a “whole process people’s democracy” is concerned, all of communist China’s institutions are completely controlled by the CCP, and the notion that there is anything approaching a genuine participatory democracy in which all of the Chinese people – not just the communists – have a say in running the country is patently absurd. All provincial and national senior government officials in communist China are elected by the appropriate people’s congress deputies or are appointed, not democratically elected by Chinese citizens.
The eight tiny political parties that the communists allow to operate include approximately 1.25 million people out of a total population of ~1.4 billion, and each is aligned ideologically with the CCP by design and by control. Any dissenting voices are crushed. Western concepts such as “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” are discarded by the communists whose domestic political goals are despotism and tyranny through perpetual one-party rule.
In short, the CCP’s “whole process people’s democracy” is a sham and nothing more than a propaganda tool.
The Democrat Party uses the word democracy routinely to achieve its political objectives, too. Phrases like “defending our democracy” and “saving our democracy” abound in speeches by senior Democrats. One example of Democrats “defending democracy” is defeating all attempts to strengthen election integrity by equating voter ID laws to voter suppression. Never mind that election fraud enabled by weak voter ID requirements itself undermines democracy by negating the legal votes of American citizens.
Another example is the Democrats’ continual reference to Trump supporters as “threats to our democracy.” Even Republicans-In-Name-Only (RINO) such as Liz Cheney (RINO-WY), who are ideologically aligned with Democrats on this particular issue, complained about the “unraveling of our democracy” when she was ousted from the House Republican leadership in May 2021 for her willing participation in the Democrats’ J6 witch hunt. She received a taste of how democracy works on 16 August when Wyoming primary voters overwhelmingly voted her out, losing by over a 30-point margin to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. Isn’t that how democracy works?
Democrats like James Carville, long-time political strategist for the Clintons, piled on in the aftermath of Cheney’s massive defeat with this characterization of Trump voters, as noted here: “The problem the Republican Party has is they got really stupid people that vote in their primaries.” The man who helped gift Americans with a serial philanderer in the Oval Office is worried that Republican primary voters are “really stupid people”? Please.
The queen of “defending our democracy” has to be Hillary Clinton. Let’s take a brief walk down memory lane:
- In September 2019, she claimed that “voter suppression” (i.e., Republican efforts to implement strong voter identification laws) has led to a “crisis in democracy.”
- In December 2019, during impeachment deliberations, she claimed that President Trump was “waging war” against democracy.
- In June 2022, Hillary Clinton opined here that she thinks “we’re about to lose our democracy” thanks to Donald Trump. Also in June, she predicted the “end of democracy” here if Republicans win the mid-term elections in November.
- A search of her Twitter account results in dozens of references to “defending our democracy” over the years.
Hillary Clinton is hardly the only Democrat who has weaponized “democracy” against Republicans and other political opponents. Some examples:
In June 2021, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) slammed ex-president for “poisoning our democracy” with his fraud “big lie,” as headlined here.
In Dec 2021, the reliably Democrat-supporting magazine The Atlantic published a whole special issue on “American Democracy in Crisis,” with articles from a host of Democrats.
In March 2022, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed her “fears for democracy” if Republicans retake control of Congress in November.
In April 2022: J6 committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed that “we have to save our democracy to save our species.”
Is this just political hyperbole, or do the Democrats seriously believe that a resounding Republican victory during the mid-term elections would somehow “end democracy” in the US? That the will of the people being expressed to toss the Democrats out for policies that have resulted in stagflation and open borders is in direct defiance to “democracy in America”?
It seems like Democrats define “democracy” as only working when Democrats get elected. That seems like how the CCP views whole process people’s democracy working in China!
Call it “democracy with democrat characteristics.” It is almost as if Democrats are trying to mimic the Chinese Communist Party in pushing narratives that, if followed by American voters, would result in Democrat one-party rule ad infinitum in the US. And we know where that road leads by observing communist China: to despotism and tyranny.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Unified messaging, lockstep voting, and democracy defined and used as a political weapon. The parallels between the Chinese Communist Party and the US Democrat Party on certain topics are definitely eerie. Toss in mask mandates, economic lockdowns, social controls, and vaccine mandates and you have egg roll. Perhaps it is proof that authoritarians everywhere exhibit the same tendencies regardless of race or color or creed variations.
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