Woke Authoritarians: How the American Left Became the Oppressors
Narcissistic Cultural Marxism from Woke American Maoists
Narcissistic abuse is total abuse, just like Totalitarianism. With the ever metastasizing narcissism pandemic, it seems fitting to dwell on the largest totalitarian regime in the world, China. Examining systemic governmental control can help to elucidate and inform the totalizing interpersonal control of narcissistic abuse and vice versa. There is much overlap and interplay. After all, it's been said that the personal is political.
As I wrote in my previous piece, I left the South, in part, to escape religious oppression that is unfortunately turning up in the forms of woke ideology and a culture of narcissistic abuse in California, where I now reside. Lily's story parallels my own, but instead of fleeing the South, she fled China. Piercingly on point, considering California’s embrace of gender ideology over parental rights, Lily highlights that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took away parents’ rights, in favor of the state.
The narcissist's ability to engage in a shared fantasy rests on four pillars: the environment has to be rootless (easy to discard), fantastic or dreamlike (to uphold grandiosity), timeless (an eternal present, so that actions do not bear consequences), and boundless (no limit to what can be done or accomplished). These pillars share an eerie resonance with Mao’s China and the current woke ideology in America that has been becoming more and more entrenched today. Mao destroyed the Four Old’s during the Cultural Revolution; he demoralized China by destroying old culture, ideas, customs, and habits.
We are at a cultural inflection point where immigrants are regularly reminding Americans how to be American. Why do immigrants consistently without question appreciate America more than natural-born U.S. citizens, who take for granted the autonomous power of free speech, for instance?
Lily’s story below is captivating and enthralling. Listening to her personal story made me feel that much more grateful to be an American. It also made me want to endeavor to bring you her story so that we might appreciate what we still have and fight to preserve it.
Lily Tang Williams, Republican Congressional Candidate in NH-02, spoke a year ago about her harrowing experience growing up under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) before she was able to flee from the dictatorship to America.
Select sections from Lily Tang Williams’ three hour interview on the Shawn Ryan Show above were edited for length and clarity below.
In Lily Tang Williams’ Words:
Well, I was two years old, my memory started in this row house provided by my Dad's state factory. My memory started from there; there was one bathroom, which was just a big hole on the ground.
They dug a big hole in the ground. Then they put a divider in the middle. One hole was for women, one hole was for men. You could talk to each other; you could talk to your neighbors. You could hear each other doing number one, number two, have conversations. It's just two bricks over the hole, so when you go to the bathroom, you have to find the two bricks. When the light bulb went out, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
We were too poor to afford a flashlight. Everybody had to buy a little potty for the apartment. So, if you don't want to go to the bathroom at night, you just went to the bathroom in your apartment in the potty. The next day, you could go dump it. Everything belonged to the state; there was no private property ownership. Because it's community housing, who cares to replace the light bulb when it goes out, right?
I was so afraid to go to the bathroom at night, because if you're not careful, you could fall backwards, and you'd be buried by human waste. Every couple weeks, a peasant would come to dig out the human waste to take it to the agriculture fields to use as fertilizer.
That's why the Chinese were trained to never eat the salad. We did not have salad, because it was not safe to eat raw food. Everything, including the water, had to be boiled at high temperatures to kill the germs. When I first came to this country, it was my old habit to look for boiled water. I was afraid to drink tap water.
I just remember that the bugs were flying around, and the flies and worms were crawling on the restroom floor. I was traumatized as a child. Because if you were not careful, when you go to the female hole, you could step on those bugs crawling on the floor.
When you stepped on it, they made a horrible, disgusting pop noise. By talking about it, I get goosebumps. I think I was traumatized by that. I just really absolutely hated that. I hated everything crawling on the floor.
And then in the summer they all became flies, flying around, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, constantly making noise. We did not have any kind of cooling or heating, so winter was extremely cold.
I had frostbite on my left foot. Every year I got frostbite on the same spot as a little girl. It got really itchy, because when you get warm, but you have frostbite, then you want to scratch it, and it gets itchy. I always broke my skin and got infected. I have scars there now.
During the Great Leap Forward, 40 million people were estimated to have starved to death. Forty million peasants, mostly in the countryside, poor rural villages, who supported his communism, supported Communist Party, and died of starvation.
From 1958 to 1961, there were three years of natural disasters: drought, flooding, bugs. The government blamed everything else. Then the people were starving.
I feel like a demoralization of America is already accomplished. Look at today's America. Our young people demonize America, call America a systemically racist country. You’ve got CRT, social emotional learning (SEL), 1619 Project, identity politics and transgender ideology in our schools. It's all about demoralizing America and American families and turning kids against their nuclear families, so they belong to the state.
The defense of parental rights is my second to the top campaign issue, because when you take away parental rights, like all the communist countries do, your kids become the property of the state.
They can push all kinds of curriculum: information, privacy, tracking, data collection, indoctrination in schools. And parents have no say in that. They're teaching all this crazy stuff, and the teacher’s union, National Education Association (NEA), said we're going to teach Critical Race Theory in 14,000 school districts.
So you think the Cultural Revolution is already over? It's happening now. The demoralization to America, in America, has been going on for the past 40 years. Once you demoralize, the third stage, is a constant crisis, after crisis. You demoralize, then you destroy, and then you create a crisis, and then you're trying to normalize it. When you're trying to normalize, after you already destroy the traditional values and culture, you normalize with what? With their control, with their power.
So that would be like what? To replace America with socialism, globalism, instead of individual liberty and individual citizens rights that should not be infringed upon and guaranteed. These rights are actually given to us by our creator, by God. You know, our rights pre-exist government, pre-exist even the constitution. But the thing is though, our young generations, for two generations now, have been indoctrinated to believe otherwise, to believe in government. That's another thing, the government can destroy families, destroy religion, demonize religions, demonize capitalism, capitalists, and profits. Guess what they do? They want you to believe in the government.
The worst religion in the whole world is statism: it's belief in government. They are the only ones who actually have a monopoly in force. They have the guns, they have the prisons, and they can lock you up and take you away. You can hate a corporation all you want, but you don't have to buy their products, right?
And you have some kind of competition, and even with social media, big tech companies. But when the government has a monopoly, enforces and controls everything, that's what you get, communist China.
Growing up in Mao’s Cultural Revolution
My favorite uncle, one of three uncles who was part of Red Guards, he said that a black family, a black class member committed suicide. He could not handle the struggle sessions anymore. My uncle’s generation goes to visit this torture site where he saw his mother tortured to death by Red Guards.
Mao used the standard Marxist Communist theory, that people are divided into two giant groups, which we use these categories today: oppressor versus oppressed.
Who are the oppressors under Mao? The five black classes.
The"Five Black Classes" were:
Landlords
Rich farmers
Counter-revolutionaries
Bad influencers
Right-wingers
Very subjective. How do you define? There were black classes or the party. Five black versus five red.
So they were supposed to go to this public square to lower their heads, to apologize for being black, to be publicly shamed, and the Red Guards threw rocks at them. Mao also shut down schools, so the urban youth had no school to go to, so that they could do the Cultural Revolution full time and eliminate political enemies.
I was a red child. Here are these five red classes:
The “Five Red Classes" included:
Poor and lower-middle peasants
Workers
Revolutionary soldiers
Revolutionary cadres who are active members of the CCP in good standing
Revolutionary martyrs, including immediate family members, children, grandchildren (if any) and relatives of deceased CCP members and PLA service personnel killed in action
I'm a worker's child because actually I could be black if my grandfather was not killed. Because my real grandfather I never met had the land, had the money. Both grandfathers did.
I only had the one grandmother I knew and since I was little. She's the one who babysat me, and she went through one year of struggle sessions too because her husband, my real grandfather, died in the Sichuan Mountains. And, she remarried, her second husband was a red worker. But they found out that she was the second wife of this leader in an outlawed group in the Sichuan mountains.
He must be killed as a counter revolutionary, which will categorize all our families to be black. My grandma kept saying that she would stick to her truth. She kept saying, no, my dead husband was killed by his own people as a kind of part of an outlaw group over some disputes.
My grandmother went through a one year investigation. Somebody poked her back standing up, she apologized, they digged, digged, she wrote self criticism, and they want her to confess, confess, confess. She kept saying, “I have nothing to confess. I have a current husband who is a worker, red class. After this one year investigation, they said, “You told the truth. Your husband was not a counter revolutionary. He was killed by his own men. Now you are categorized as red class.” That's why then we all become red. Otherwise, if you had one grandmother categorized as black, the entire family is black. Unless one thing Mao urged young people to do, you can become red from black if you denounce your families.
You’d come out publicly to say, “My grandparents were born black, they were landlords, and I'm sorry, I apologize. I'm going to draw the line to denounce my family. I will change my last name, from Tang to Wang”, then I’d become red. A lot of people were doing that.
Young people were brainwashed, and they were pressured. They were also totally trusting the propaganda. And Mao was like a god. We said every day, “Long live Chairman Mao. We’d hold the little red books. Long live Chairman Mao! Long live Communist Party! Ten thousand years! Double ten thousand years!!” I never challenged that.
Is he a god, or is he human? No, I never asked that question. But we're just chanting every day. So the teenagers in the cities, urban youth, they were brainwashed, and they were pressured. If you don't belong to your family, change your last name.
Being a Red Guard, Communist Youth Member, or Communist Party Member were all the jobs. The best jobs were all for those Communist group members.
But according to the Communist Party itself, 20 million people were murdered. 20 million people during Mao's Cultural Revolution?? Probably this number included those who could not handle the struggle sessions and concentration camps.
There were people who originally supported the party—intellectuals, scientists, professors, teachers, even people who were wealthy, but they were young people who supported the party. Then later, because of the Cultural Revolution, all of a sudden, the party supporters became black class, because they were born that way. You were guilty unless you changed your last name and denounced your family. Sometimes that was not enough, and they threw their supporters under the bus.
I hope history will never repeat itself, but unfortunately the tragedies and the horrors of this Cultural Revolution are not being talked about, not being taught to our school kids, college kids. And how hard it is for me to see Antifa kids, BLM kids waving a communist flag! BLM leaders come out saying, we are trained Marxists.
Do they even understand? What that means from my personal experience, what I had witnessed is absolutely horrible and will affect my life forever. But I did not know the truth. I was still chanting. I had no idea about the truth until I came to this country. And there are lots of people living inside of China who still don't know the truth.
Communism means the government takes away all means of production and controls, everything from land to property, factories, natural resources, media, schools, press, TV, radio stations. Everything is under one party control. There is no judicial independence. All courts, all prosecutors, all teachers, all doctors, all reporters work for the government. One party control, even today.
I started to ask the question, who lied to me? Mao was not God. He was a human, that's why he died.
In our culture, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, we didn't show affection to each other, and we were not allowed to date. We were not allowed to wear pretty clothes, like what I'm wearing today, a Chinese silk blouse. It was banned because one of the Four Old’s: old culture, custom, ideas, and habits.
When Red Guards looted door to door, people hid clothes like this or burned it or gave it away, because if you got caught, you could go to struggle sessions and go to labor camps, because you are capitalist, you are black. So you had old stuff like this. Everybody's supposed to look the same. Girls look like boys.
They had to approve hairstyles, approve colors. I could not let my hair down like this past my shoulders. You had to braid your hair, have pigtails, ponytails, or short hair. You cannot let down your hair freestyle like this, this long. You had to braid it, pull it up.
Under Communist China, during Mao, you had to work. Everybody had to work, including all women. A mother could not stay at home with her babies. You had a guaranteed job with the state, but it's not up to you to choose what job, what position. You just must work. How do they decide where you're going to work? Everybody worked for the state.
“Equal Outcome” Equity looks like Starvation
Everybody learned to catch rats, and they ran out very quickly. You ran out of rats to eat. Yes. that's how bad it was. One family had a dog. All the kids loved their dog. And the police came in to say that it's illegal to have a dog. Either you kill it, eat it, or we’ll come to get your dog and kill it, maybe eat it too.
So my neighbor had to, no choice. They put their dog down and ate the meat. We, as kids, were very sad and that was the only dog I knew, actually.
Legitimate Paranoia: Everyone You Know could be a Rat
Just because you're paranoid don’t mean they're not after you
I was the best student, I got 100% on every subject. I was very physically fit, doing all the physical education activities. I was a red child, and I was politically correct. So I thought I would be the first one to join Mao’s Young Pioneer, wear a red scarf and become a red scarf girl.
It was such an honor, privilege to be the one who wears the red scarf, but my teacher said, “Somebody reported on you, because you were bragging about yourself, how wonderful you are, that you’ll be the first one to wear the red scarf. We're not going to let you, because you're too confident.”
You're full of yourself, basically. They criticized me that I’m too full of myself and too expressive. I was telling my girlfriend, privately, that I thought I'd be the first one to join, but she told on me. After that lesson, at the age of seven, I couldn’t trust anybody anymore. So you're not allowed to be proud of yourself? No. I was told by my teacher, we are a collective society. Everybody should fit in. Everybody should be the same. And, your self expression of confidence, bragging about yourself, is a serious flaw. They said, “We're going to hold you back. According to your grades, you should be the first one to join, but we're not going to nominate you to join, to wear a red scarf, because of what you said privately to your friend.”
I dared not to say anything to my teacher. I did complain to my parents though. They were brainwashed, too. They said we agree with your teacher.
So I learned my lesson. Do not trust anybody at the age of seven in a one party controlled state. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't trust your teachers. Don't even trust your family members because family members, some belong to the Communist Party.
Everybody was encouraged to write diaries to confess what you think of yourself, also what you heard from your family members and your neighbors about anything not PC, not politically correct.
So if you hear anybody saying something challenging Mao or the party, that's a crime, a thought crime; this existed. Remember Chairman Mao's big button? If you wore it upside down accidentally, it's a crime. You can go to jail. If you hold Chairman Mao’s little red book to say Long Live Chairman Mao, but upside down, they’d think you are a little country revolutionary.
Everything was about politics. It was in your face every day. There's no down time. There's no off the grid living. And, so you have to be very careful. It's hard to have any fun as a child. Our music had to be approved. Songs have to be all loyal to Mao and the party. Every day in this community housing, I lived there for 15 years next to my junior high and high school, 6:30 A.M. in the morning, a big loudspeaker would come on to say, “Time to get up, time to go to work, time to go to school! Long live Chairman Mao, long live Communist Party!”. Here's the news; it's all very high pitched noise. You could not sleep in. Have you heard about Peking Opera? Mao's wife created a very political Peking Opera to sing red songs about Mao’s Party regime. It was awful. It was using a high pitch voice singing red songs. So we had to hear that.
We really didn't have any privacy, so that's why I learned to keep everything to myself, to not trust anybody.
I did have a couple crushes on my classmates in middle school, high school. That's natural, right? But we were not allowed to date. One boy in middle school, I was class president, he came to talk to me to say, “I'm so scared, what should I do?”; he had a crush on a pretty girl in junior high. She received a love letter from him. She got scared. She didn't know what to do. She came to talk to me because my parent’s apartment was next to the school. I was so brainwashed. I was so politically correct. Of course you know what to do. We're banned from dating. You give this letter to the teacher. She did. And that boy never smiled again. He probably got a referral, went to private meetings, got criticized, probably even noted on his student file.
Every child had a secret student file. Your parents and you weren't allowed to see what's inside. That's how they track you. So if you get a discipline action like this, then you will get written up in your student file. And, of course, after I woke up in this country (USA), I felt guilty about what I did. I was a child.
I did not know. And she...and he never smiled again. I don't know what happened to them privately. We were not allowed to date. That's why you were not allowed to look pretty, to look like a girl. And, you know, I had to learn how to do makeup after I came to this country. I never learned how to do makeup.
Musical Deprivation
One time, during a news break on the government radio, all controlled by the government, my neighbor, only one family out of eight, had a little radio. I said that's so beautiful, I heard classical music, and piano, during a news break. Every day at that time, during a news break, for a short time, there was classical music.
After all those revolutionary operas and Red Suns, we were deprived of beautiful music, so I begged them. It's dinner time. “Can I come in to listen next to the radio, very close? I will not bother you eating dinner”. We were too poor to have a radio and they let me in. I wanted to go there just to focus on listening to classical music. Sometimes it was violin, sometimes piano, sometimes it was a symphony, very short.
It was magic. And my tears would come out and I said, “Oh, this is beautiful, so beautiful. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much! And so my entire childhood dream was like, “Dad, when can we buy a radio, so I don't have to bother my neighbors to listen to it?”. We never had a radio because my Dad and Mom were not high enough status, and they were always in debt.
Lily’s musical deprivation reminded me of David Bowie’s futuristic, turn of the century 1995 album 1.Outside— Segue - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
…And they've put me on these
Ramona put me on these interest drugs
So I'm thinking very, too, bit too fast like a brain hatch
And, ah, they won't let me see anybody
~If I want to sometimes and I ask, I can still hear some pop, popular musics and aftershocks~
I've been watching a television of, um, in the homelands
That's the new homelands and, um, and that's all I can remember
And now they just want me to be quiet
And I think something is going to be horrid
Mao’s Narcissism: Humans are Fungible
Mao died in 1976. He was a mass murderer. But my family would say, let's take a minute to have a memorial for him: human sorrow, human tragedy. I really, I just became speechless. I cannot tell them. I heard Mao had no compassion when people were crying, holding his hand, kissing his hand, telling him about poor families; he didn’t smile and there was no laughter.
When people told Mao during the mass famine that people were starving to death, there was no reaction. His attitude was we’ve got lots of people, so 20 million, no big deal. It's very scary that somebody could be like that. People worship him like a god, but he has no respect for human life.
At one point China pushed for a one child policy, blaming the bad economy on too big of a population, too many people. It's your political ideology, your system completely failed!
Well, people in this country (USA) might say that's not real communism. You know, how many people have to die to prove to you communism, socialism doesn’t work? 100 million people died in 100 years under communism. How many experiments do you want?
Cultural Revolution 2. 0
So, if they know the real history, if they know this, what happened to us during Mao's Cultural Revolution, you would think history should not repeat. But today's China is already in Cultural Revolution 2. 0. Chairman Xi wants to have “common prosperity”.
Xi’s policies helped to take over basically lots and lots of private huge industries and companies. A billionaire, Jack Ma, was forced to retire and he also disappeared for a few months, because he dared to criticize China regulators on the economy.
Chairman Deng Xiaoping (in power from 1978-1989) espoused that China should have a term limit. Deng limited himself to two terms of five years, ten years. And the same thing happened to Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin. But Xi came to power, and he got rid of that. He's a hardcore communist. Even celebrities are quiet now in China.
All the YouTubers, celebrities, famous actresses, actors, and billionaires and millionaires who got rich from past China's limited free market capitalism and a lot of private industries and private enterprises, now they are staying low profile, keeping their heads down. And, sometimes they disappear.
China is famous for disappearing people. In my row house, community housing, courtyard, I heard two neighbors disappeared. Their family never found out what happened to them. I don't know what happened. I was a child. But my Dad told me, they're gone. They went on a business trip; they're just gone. And people still disappear today in China.
There are dark prisons full of prisoners of conscience and human rights lawyers. If you practice human rights as a career, as a lawyer, that's a very dangerous career for you to have in China. If I stayed in China, I could be in jail too, by saying what I'm saying. I thought when you go study law, it's to protect people, to promote justice and equality. No, I was told in law school that law is a tool for the party to use to govern the masses. All the Chinese people are just masses. I was depressed. I was asking this question about the nature of law at 12 years old. At 17 I went to law school. I was asking questions again. I wanted to study law to help my country to become a society based on the rule of law.
And I heard my professor telling me that. Then I got depressed again. I was a lost soul for two years after Mao’s death, and now I was lost in law school. What should I be doing with my life? So, I became a rebellious teenager. That's when my awakening started happening, when I became a rebellious teenager in college.
We were subject to department education mandates. When I first went to law school in 1981, they still banned us from wearing our hair down. They banned dance parties and blue jeans. Wearing blue jeans represented a western lifestyle. You could not wear blue jeans to go to school campus.
We were rebellious. We didn't care so much, so we would just constantly have our hair wet, and it was like, “Oh, my hair is wet, I just took a shower. I cannot put up. I need to let it dry.” We were constantly fighting with the guards.
Eventually, we got a boom box to play music in the hallway of the dormitory. The dormitory lights shut off at 10:00 P.M. As adult college students, we had a curfew at 10:00 P.M; all the lights shut off at 10:00 P.M. As college kids, we could not sleep, so we were learning how to dance in the hallway. With a boombox, we’d play a cassette, play dance music to practice our dance steps.
The dormitory bathroom at night, it's one location in the hallway, so they had to keep the lights on in the hallway. And, one year later, finally, they said, “okay, you can have dance parties now.” The 80’s was like China's cultural renaissance. Remember Tiananmen Square’s 1989 students’ protest?
A Breath of Fresh Air from America
One American student changed my life. He met me at a dancing party. He said, “Lily, I want to show you something from America. He gave me his student exchange building address. I went to visit him. All foreign students and buildings have a guard. All Chinese students had guards. All buildings had security guards.
I had to fill out (a form) on who I'm going to visit. Time in, time out, what I'm going to talk about, and where's my address, what major I have as a college student. I went to his room. I had no idea what to expect. You know, something from America, cool, awesome.
He actually showed me a pocket constitution. He said, “Have you heard of this?”. I said, no. I said that my English was not good, so he read to me. My English was good enough to remember that all men are created equal. I said, “This is your founding document? What do you mean?”. And he told me, “Lily, it doesn't matter that you're Chinese, you're a woman, you have yellow skin.”
See, the founding fathers in America believed all humans are born equal, and they are children of God. Your rights come from your creator, not from any government. You, by being you, have individual rights. I'd never heard that before. I always get emotional when I talk about this. My light bulbs came on.
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I thought our talk was so fascinating. I said, “I'll come back.” I went back another time, and because my English just wasn't good enough, he went through a couple more with me, the Bill of Rights. I learned, hey, I have individual rights from the first session.
So the second time I went back to visit him, I did not register. I thought, well, I have a right. I have a right to talk to this person. Why should I register? To tell them what we're talking about and let them track me?? I have some common sense that they don't want; they don't like this. I can get into trouble by telling them what I'm talking about.
So, I basically just, the lady has to go to the bathroom, pour a tea, just watch out, right? When she's gone temporarily, I just tiptoed, run upstairs, and, and tiptoed, run down. It makes for a good movie someday!
I just remember he told me all those rights: speech, religion, and the press, assembling. And, Second Amendment right. I was very impressed. Really? Really, you have this?? Oh, I just thought this country is awesome.
So, I still couldn't understand lots of stuff. I just remembered those rights. I thought this country would be awesome for me to come to someday if I have to give up on China. He put America into my head and the individual rights that would never go away. I graduated, and I wanted to thank Shanghai so badly, because I didn't want to go back to my home province. Then my sponsor lent me money to get a visa and apply for graduate school and bought me an air ticket to fly to the United States.
I remember when I got my visa after three tries, and everybody was shaking hands with me and touching my hair, because there were so many students lining up in a long line to get a visa. Once you get a visa, they feel like you have one foot already in the U.S., so they want to touch your hair and to feel the good luck, to give them some good luck, so they can get a visa next time.
They said, “Oh! Congratulations! Can I touch your hair? One foot is already in the U.S.!”. And, I was smiling too. I was so happy. All I needed now was the air ticket. And, of course, we have to go for health screening and do whatever legal paperwork is required by the U.S., and for my student visa. I flew for the first time! I actually flew home from Shanghai to Chengdu to say goodbye to my family.
Social Credit Scores
My parents had to get permission to get married. Once you get married, you have to go to your local police station to register as a household. When you have children, you have to add each child into the household registration, and all the information is there.
You get a little booklet: where you live, who you work for and how many people in your household. You get benefits with that. You get your coupons when you open up a bank account, go to the hospital, or go to school. When you are designated as an individual, like as a student, you get a student file which tracks the individual.
When you become a worker, then you get a personnel file, and they continue tracking you. It's a social credit system, which is supposed to be based on traditional Chinese paper tracking, but now it's digitized. They got, I guess, the idea from the western FICA score, right? They give you a score with your financial status and your behaviors, if you're worthy for people to lend you money, so you can pay them back.
They call this social credit. They discovered, wow, this big tech is so convenient to track people. Everybody has a cell phone. Just tie to their cell phone everything they do. They were tracking people by the papers, but now it's so easy. You cannot delete anything once you track them by cell phone, right?
They started this experiment in big cities. I think now it's implemented all over the country. Everything's on your cell phone, so show social credit not just about your financial behavior anymore: like do you owe money, did you pay back on time, did you pay your mortgage on time?
Now social credit means, what did you say online? Did you say anything anti-government? Did your friends say anything anti-government in those groups on WeChat? You are judged not just by your own speeches, behaviors, but you also are judged by the social networks you belong to.
Let's say you belong to 50 WeChat groups, and some of those group members say something not politically correct, something that needs to be censored, that can affect your score. They put everything on your phone too, like normally they start with everybody getting 1,000 points, right? That's a starting point. So if you behave, you share, you study on Chairman Xi's red app, and you see something, you share something that's good. They want you to share, you get points and you don't owe any debt and you comply with everything.
You acquire negative points if you have debt, or if you say something that they don't think is right either on social media or on your phone, because everything is done on your phone now, with apps and stuff.
Let's say they catch you going to church. You're not supposed to go to that church, because that church is state sectioned. You have to go to Chinese state permitted churches. If you get caught going to other places, like a home church, which is banned, then you get a reduced point. Once your points get below 600 or something, then when you go to buy a train ticket, airplane ticket, they say, well, your credit, your social credit score is so low.
You cannot travel or borrow money to buy anything. Your kids can be affected by you and cannot go to the best school possible. You cannot get a promotion. You can't get a mortgage or a business loans. So everything is a politicized. It's just a lot more than FICA score now.
China's social credit system is tracking people. Have you heard about ESG scores? Environmental Social Governance score, which is adopted by S&P 500 global rating agency to rate cities, state government, private corporations, publicly traded corporations, your score based on climate change.
Like let's say Utah state, the state treasurer said his state is financially responsible, but we’ve got a not so good ESG score because they judge you by climate change standards. How many companies do you have? In terms of renewable energies, how many gas companies do you have in your state? It's political science.
You have to comply with their narratives, with this new agenda, this global agenda, they make you comply—did they learn something from China's social credit system? So long term, if you think about it, they can do this to our state agencies, states, cities, and publicly traded companies.
And they're going to tell you (to comply), small business owner, private company business. And they're going to tell individuals later. Everything will be subject to permission and license from the government on politics, their political talking points. So everybody’s got to comply and tell the lie. Otherwise, you get canceled.
Look what they're doing now, canceling media, like comedian shows. You have to say the right words or you get censored. That's exactly what happened, right? Scientists, artists, musicians all have to be careful to be P.C. Dangerous stuff.
Everywhere you go has facial recognition cameras and also equipment to recognize your voice. When you apply for a new cell phone in China, they scan your face and record your voice. Everything on your cell phone will be tied to that. There's no privacy. You cannot hide. As a foreigner, when you go to China, they recommend that you don't take your cell phone, take a burner phone or even burner laptop, so that you don't have something installed, where they start to track, monitor everything going on. It's a total surveillance state. They don't think we deserve any kind of privacy. One government official used his phone to pay for a prostitute and immediately got arrested. It's like, how stupid are you? They are also trying to get rid of cash in China. Now your banking record, your bank account, everything is connected with an app on your phone. So when you use your phone to pay for stuff, it's all tracked.
When you talk about public facial recognition cameras, I remember the goal is to have 600 million public facial recognition cameras. We have 1.4 billion Chinese. The United States, we have like 330 million people? It’s a scary number to even think about. And the voice recording? I don't know how people feel.
If you go to Hong Kong now, which has lost out to China’s control, as a foreigner, if you go there and say something that is a threat to the CCP, in the name of national security law, they can arrest you, lock you up. I guess I won't be visiting China anytime soon, or you have to be careful what you say.
The Current State of Play
China is a one party dictatorship, the largest totalitarian regime in the whole world. Chinese entrepreneurs are pretty smart. They’ve created lots of good products, but there's one thing they cannot escape: China's national security law, one party dictatorship. Any company in China is subject to the one party rule.
TikTok in your kid’s apps has all the data. If the Chinese government, CCP, said, I need all your users’ data, they have to turn it over. They're not like us and protect privacy. In China, you have no choice or you lose your business, you get shut down.
Billionaires disappear or are forced to leave their positions, retire, or give to charities all the time. Remember they control all the media, and they don't talk about it. And China's debt is very high, 250% of their GDP. Their economy is big, supposed to be, if their numbers are even trustworthy, 18 trillion GDP. Then 250% of GDP is their debt, but also private citizens’ money.
Now people have stopped paying for mortgages. How is this going to collapse China’s economy and CCP and affect the world financial market and economy? Because, unfortunately, so many people today still rely on China for the supply chains. I think the whole world does. It's like when you want to sanction Putin, but you rely on Putin for oil, for lots of supplies, and for even food and fertilizer from Ukraine, of course you're going to suffer consequences.
They have spent lots of money through their United Front, what Chinese call Tong Zhan Bu, United Front Overseas Branch, to get money into the Confucius Institute, into our schools and colleges for the past 18 years. Now the Confucius Institute, funded by the CCP, is changing its name to a very good name, called the Chinese International Education Foundation. That way they can use that to funnel money into our colleges and still continue to push for their agenda and indoctrinate our students, not just Chinese students coming here to study, who have university exchange programs. Even Harvard, lots of private universities got lots of money from China in the past and failed to report to our federal government department of education, who is supposed to disclose that.
They're setting up companies, and they bought a lot of companies during the pandemic too all over the world. They pay the company and then the company donates the money to the school or the business or whatever, so it's not...we need to follow the money.
It's dark money. All the dark money funneled into our schools, non-profit organizations, government…they even interfere with our elections. They can buy companies, they can invest in your own local economy, create jobs, and buy land. They're trying to buy land and build this infrastructure for an agricultural business in North Dakota right now near Grand Fork, our military base.
I was on their North Dakota TV to say, “No, don't do it. You need to absolutely oppose this.”
Senator Cotton has a bill to ban Chinese firms tied to the CCP from buying land in America. I agree. I support that. You know why? As foreigners, even as Chinese citizens in China, you are forbidden to buy land per the constitution of China.
Land belongs to the state. Foreign companies and foreigners and Chinese citizens, all cannot buy land. Why are we so naive? Let them come here. Oh, Chinese firms come here to buy businesses, buy companies and set up buildings.
In our capital, they could use Huawei, the very advanced surveillance equipment company, to spy on our capital and our politicians, militaries, and communication network. We have been very, very naive. And also, people think, hey, China’s economy is good now, maybe we can just keep doing business with them, and they will become like us.
Organ Harvesting
Well, I left China in 1988. In the 90’s, my dad even told me, there's this massive meditation practice called the Qigong, later called the Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, basically, it's a kind of a branch of Buddhist movement to meditate. It's a health practice. You sit down, you meditate, kind of similar to yoga, but it's more traditional Chinese style and for a long time, you meditate. It's very good for health reasons. Some people cannot cure their health issues except by doing this.
At the beginning the government promoted the practice, because lots of people, Communist Party members also benefited from this practice and got cured. And it had like, at one time, 100 million members. And the Chinese Communist Party only had like, 90 million members. They were huge.
One time their member was falsely arrested, so the Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing, near the compound of all the officials, just to sit down there, meditate, kind of like a peaceful protest. Jiang Zemin was the president at that time. He saw that as an absolute threat to the dominant power of CCP, so he banned it. Once he banned it in 1999, a million or so people who practiced it got arrested and disappeared into the dark prisons without due process. All of this for meditating, for practicing Falun Gong. And they're very healthy people because it’s good for your health to practice this. I was already in this country when I learned about this.
Then I heard all of a sudden China was accused of using their organs. Chinese culture does not encourage people to donate organs. They want to die as a whole body and there's no cultural tradition of donating organs to save another life. The United Nations was urged to investigate. China denied it. Some Western countries like Great Britain, maybe Canada, all condemned it and forbade their organ tourists to go to China to schedule for an organ transplant surgery, because they say that's a crime against humanity.
I think we need to really come out strongly and support these people. Their base is in New York, but they go to D.C. and New York, and they protest every year. They're Falun Gong practitioners. They're healthy. I saw some pictures that they will give you an injection, like if you were in the prison, they give you an injection where you were kind of passed out, and they take your organs, take your corneas from your eyes.
They're taking organs from prisoners, and then they die. They’re Falun Gong practitioners; that means they're prisoners of conscience because of their religious belief and because they practice meditation. There's no trial, no due process. You don't know where the prison is. So they go there, keep them, and they test them. They keep track of their health. When they need your organs and have a match, then you get to pick and choose.
They basically murder you for organs. China is one of the five Security Councils of the United Nations and the Council of Human Rights. There have been no investigations. I think that the Western free world countries really need to come out.
The Future
I'm just worried. I want to warn our business people to think about the long term consequences of you just focusing on profits, money making inside the China market. Remember Lenin said, let's deal with capitalists, let them make a rope sell to us. We will buy rope from them, but we will use the same ropes to hang them later.
Why should we continue to do business with a country like that? I'm calling for decoupling from a PRC market. If you are still doing business buying from them, it's time to evaluate your options. Because, of course, our country needs to bring our manufacturing home back here, cut regulations, cut taxes, to give incentive for business people to manufacture their products here, to provide services here.
But if you cannot compete, if you have so much government red tape, control and high regulations…climate change…that's why gas prices are so high, you know, we have to buy from other countries, inflation is high. There's so many things, and it's caused unnecessarily by our bad Democrat controlled government policies.
So we rely on China, we rely on the Middle East for oil, and we rely on Russia. Europeans heavily rely on Russia. Doing business with those not friendly countries, we're hurting ourselves, we're hurting our national security, because you cannot even negotiate from a position of strength.
We’re so weak as a country right now, China's laughing at us. That's why they can threaten us, and they can threaten Nancy Pelosi about going to Taiwan. Let an unelected, totalitarian regime threaten a democratically elected representative? Is this a wake up call?? We should have woken up earlier, a long time ago, instead of right now.
Biden is awake. He's already talking about letting go of lots of tariffs, because we need China for lots of products. It's time to decouple from China's economy. If they're going to threaten us like this, eventually they are going to use force to take Taiwan, they will not even care what we stand for as the U.S. government, as people of the U.S.
So we have to really take this very seriously. China is our biggest national security threat right now, not Russia. What do you think? Why do you think, excuse me, why do you think China is 100% behind Russia right now? Because they share similar ideologies. Remember the former Soviet Union was a communist, Bolshevik country.
China has always been controlled by a one party dictatorship. They have more common ground than China with western countries, with the U.S.’s democracy, freedom, and personal liberties. They hate that. It's like, oh, you're going to let your citizens, individual citizens, have the right to vote, and the right to criticize the government, and the right to do their business without our control, without complying with our laws??
You are a threat to us. It's all about their power, their control. That's what communists do. They don't value individual rights, freedom, liberty, and private property. So all the capitalists want to sell China something? You know? It's time to question long term what's going to happen if you continue to do this without holding China accountable for their human rights abuses.
No, they can just threaten the United States whenever they want to. They were threatening to shoot down Pelosi's airplane. What are they going to do next? What if they really take Taiwan? Are we ready to have the free world totally shut down China's economy because they're going to use force to attack Taiwan, a truly democratic country?
They might say, oh, Taiwan is part of us. Well, that's what they say. Well, that's why the U. S. has been very, very ambiguous about, oh, we have a one child policy. And, you know, but we also will back Taiwan. So that's like since 1979, the Carter administration threw Taiwan under the bus, made a deal with Communist China.
That's where we are today. But, our elected officials can go to Taiwan, can talk to them, can call, can do business, and they can, if they want to, whatever they call it, maintain the status quo, but we need to morally stand up for Taiwan. We need the military to send whatever equipment they need. And they need to hurry up.
I heard some deals got delayed by Biden administration. And Taiwan is under risk right now. So we need to do the lessons right. If you don't decouple with China, then how do you do economic sanctions against China if they invade Taiwan? Why are we still allowing Chinese big firms to come to Wall Street? They take advantage of our free market and capital investment, lots of dollars, lots of dollars, including some pension funds in the United States, invest it in China, maybe managed by BlackRock, very big in China, and so we need to reevaluate what we have been doing in the past, like 20 something years since China joined WTO, the World Trade Organization.
What do you think China's endgame is? What is their goal? Is it world domination? Yes. Is that what it is? It's called Xi Jinping's Chinese dream. He calls it the Chinese dream. It's not the Chinese people's dream. Chinese people are the biggest victims of their own regime and government.
So we have to be very smart about what we're doing before it's too late. The communists, people might be naive to think after the falling of the Berlin Wall, that, you know, Communists took a pause, took a break.
No. China's Communists learned from that. They do not want what happened to the collapse of the Soviet Union to happen to them. So they are very savvy in terms of how they are going to maintain power, influence, and control in the world. Their people are hungry, starving, but they spend lots of money overseas to form alliances, to buy foreign companies, foreign governments, corporations, even YouTuber influencers. They created those YouTubers who can make China look wonderful. There are some all over the world. You can tell they probably got money from China. They talk to their narratives. I watch both because, also in Mandarin Chinese, so I get to know what they're talking about.
What is their argument? And guess what? They bought AMC, our movie theater chain is now owned by a Chinese firm. All the newspapers in this country, Chinese Mandarin newspapers, the Chinese were the big shareholders. Look how many of them interviewed me, except, NTDTV and the Epoch Times, those are the media empires started by Falun Gong practitioners, they're anti-CCP.
All the rest, they don't interview me. I am the only Republican candidate in the whole country right now for Congress, born and raised in Communist China.
I am kind of terrified for our country. I have been educated for five years to see how the Marxist indoctrination is happening in our schools. I'm a staunch supporter of school choice, educational freedom account, parental rights and parental control. I've been telling people what is going on today in America.
I call it the neo-Marxist Cultural Revolution I saw in China. I categorize 12 tactics and similarities between the one I survived and the current one that is happening in the USA. It's a lot more scaled. It's in selective places. But in terms of massive student indoctrination, that is happening regardless of if you live in a red state, blue state, or attend public schools. Why shouldn’t the people wake up to ask why their parents lost control of what their kids are taught in schools? Why are our teachers today trained social justice warriors, who want to force down your kid’s throat critical race theory, 1619 Project, social emotional learning (SEL), transgender ideology onto our kids?? And if we as parents feel passionately against that and speak up at school board meetings, then the federal government could target you as a potential domestic terrorist. Are you kidding me?? Parents who love their kids, who don't want this kind of crap indoctrinating their kids?
I feel terrified, because I see this similarity. For example, five red classes, five black classes, under oppressor, oppressed, happening here. There's a whole bunch of categories by some federal agencies now, if you dig into it, by whistleblowers. What kind of groups are oppressors? What kind of groups are considered oppressed?
It's scary. It's similar. If you’re a white male, you're born racist. You're born guilty by something you cannot control. And you're guilty by something you said, that you did many years ago that's going to cancel you. Lots of people lose jobs and careers in business because of what they’ve said or done in the past.
I don't know what else can come back to bite you from 20 years ago. They're so righteous! I was called an extremist in New Hampshire after my first debate. The New Hampshire Democrats tweeted, “The Granite State of New Hampshire will reject my extremism”. What is my extremism??
I love America. I live the American dream. I don't want indoctrination in our schools. I do not think America is a systemically racist country. I believe the civil rights movement has come a long way. I love people to be united and all created equal. I'm a person of color, minority, business woman, and I just love this country.
I want to tell my stories, but I'm extremist?? So if you don't believe in creating a massive dependency on the government and using taxpayers’ money to fund big government projects, including all the government schooling without parental consent and control, then I'm extremist?? I have seen conservatives who have gotten shut down, churches closed, and people who are afraid to speak up.
Democrats write to me anonymously to say, “Lily, thank you for what you're doing. We will vote, but we're afraid to speak up right now. We will lose our job, we'll lose our careers.” How many good teachers are trapped inside of our schools but afraid of woke activists??
We are hurting our recruitment goal; we are hurting our readiness. Lots of them don't know China is laughing all the way to the bank. Our military is focused on social issues, but not readiness.
And our people, lots of them don't know what's happening in China, what's happening in this country, what's happening in history, what's happening in Venezuela. I just met an Uber driver last night, who dropped me off at my hotel, who said, “Lily, my family are from Venezuela, and they are hungry. They are stuck there. I've been here. I'm legal here for four years now, and I love America.”
I'm worried about America. Why are they all using similar tactics and terms here? Equity, for example, is a communist term. Equal outcome. But corporation trainings, called “less whiteness” trainings, DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings, all talk about equity, but they only talk about equity of skin color, of race and skin, but they don't want diversity of ideas, personalities, skills, and talents.
The most important diversity in my mind is actually diverse ideas, thoughts, voices, and problem solving solutions. No, they don't talk about that. You have to toe the left line. I'm just worried that this country is becoming more and more like the country I left. But, I have faith in the American people. I have faith in our constitutional republic that if people wake up, if people get to the truth, that there will be a massive walking away from that kind of far right, far left, far radical ideologies. We don't want to go down the socialist path. But there are 100 members of Progressive caucus in the U.S. Congress right now. I will be outnumbered when I get into Congress. It's more than just the squad, there are like 100 of them.
They all want socialist policies. And my Democrat opponent...Congresswoman Kuster has been there for 10 years. She votes for those policies. She votes with them. She talks about equity all the time. You cannot have an equal outcome without doing socialism and communism, which is to use government force to redistribute wealth, period.
We should not even use that term, equity. Everybody is using that term from the left side. It really scares me and other immigrants to say, what's going on in America?? I always tell them, please, if you have a good immigrant story, share that with me on my YouTube channel. We need more and more immigrants.
Stand up, speak up to save our country now from this taking over, this destruction from far left Socialist policies, ideologies. Otherwise, we will have no place to go. This would be our new country.
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