A Democratic Socialist congresswoman’s recent Twitter post is sparking controversy. She’s asking people to archive supporters of President Trump.
A former Obama administration official wrote in a now-deleted post that the so-called “Trump Accountability Project” is doing just that, which tracks “Every Administration staffer, everyone” who has supported Trump.
Joshua Philipp is an investigative journalist with The Epoch Times and the host of Crossroads.
He said that this phenomenon, as well as some strategies used by political groups in the United States today, echo the actions of all communist movements when they tried to seed/spread revolution.
One strategy communists use is to create a group of public enemies.
“They always pick one group of society to turn the rest of society against. Adolf Hitler, for example, went after the Jews. You always see movements of this type, targeting one portion of the society at a time, eliminating them, driving people into conflict with them, which they can use to manufacture their social movements,” said Philipp.
“What we can look at is the pattern of development for movements like this. In other words, the social creation of state enemies, the social creation of an ideology that certain parts of society are absolutely evil and should be eliminated. For example, the left calling all Trump supporters, Nazis, or the far right, instead of understanding, well look, half the country voted for him 70 over 70 million people. Would it be fair to say that those 70 million people are all Nazis? Is this really how people interpret reality? But these are the narratives being pushed by the big tech and big media.”
In 1949, right before the Chinese Communist Party was about to take power in China, the Party’s mouthpiece Xinhua published a list of the so-called “war criminals,” who were supporters of the ruling Chinese Kuomintang Party.
The CCP said the list was created by the Chinese people, and that those on the list are “killable by all the people of the country.”
“Now in the United States, we see similar things budding, and they’re not fully running it, but they’re budding. That may seem benign to some people who don’t like Trump, but what’s the result of that in the long run? What is the historical lesson from that?
“This should be regarded as political terrorism because the act of doing so is to suppress people based on political ideas. It’s singling out people for their beliefs, for their viewpoints, and for engaging in normal democratic processes,” Philipp went on to say.
The second strategy used by communists is taking control of the media.
Philipp further added, “communist movements typically did take over the media, right, a lot of the original socialist and communist movements also ran newspapers.”
Before the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin used German money to buy newspaper companies, as well as establishing over a dozen new outlets.
Through these papers, Lenin made promises of peace and bread to the Russian people, which disrupted the judgment of people who were suffering under the first world war and shifted public opinion in his favor.
Another strategy is to censor dissidents and create fear, and if necessary, justify the use of violence.
“Lenin, first off, was a part of a terrorist movement, the Bolsheviks were, for example, assassinating police; carrying out assassinations, killings, beatings, you name it," Philipp stated.
“Programs like this to eliminate individuals in society who are deemed state enemies, based on programs exactly like what’s happening in the U.S., oftentimes developed slowly. And you can look at these social hatreds, the level of hatred some people have already, to the extent that already a lot of people justify, for example, what Antifa is doing. A lot of people already justify political violence.“
“They can turn a blind eye to the violence and they can say, Oh, well, you know, this is just us trying to make a political statement.”
But Philipp said historically after communists take power, the people who helped them instigate violence are often the first to be abandoned by them.
“The groups they’ve used to cause all the problems are usually the first they destroy. They’re the first ones lined up against the wall. They’re the first ones thrown in the gulags. They’re the first ones gotten rid of because there are elements for destabilization. Once the communists take over, once a socialist take over, they no longer need the stabilization. They need to return to normalcy.”
He said to counter such type of subversion, people should speak up and speak the truth.
“One of the best things they’ve always used for their own interest is silence of people who they are targeting.
“What we see developing this country between big tech, big media, and violent groups like Antifa, are three wings of the same basic system, trying to suppress every individual American, trying to make you be quiet, and trying to stop you from expressing your beliefs.
“And so I would encourage people to not be afraid to speak up. Don’t be afraid to speak out, don’t be afraid to call it out. I‘d say don’t become like them. Don’t fall into their trap and become violent just like them, because they’ll use it. This is what they do. They want you to fight on the streets violently. They want you to engage with them like that. Because if you do that, they can use it to push their own narratives even further. But what they don’t want you to do is to speak out to expose them and to use the truth to condemn them. And so I would urge everybody to not be afraid to speak out. Do not let them silence you.”
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