The Stupidity of Totalitarianism
I’ve got another great China story for you about the never-ending stupidity of totalitarianism. And in this case, I choose that word—“stupidity”—deliberately. As I have written many times, totalitarianism, such as what the CCP imposes on the Chinese people and what the Democratic Party wishes to foist upon Americans, is the greatest evil government can concoct. It robs people of their freedom, and has murdered countless billions of innocent people down through history. But it is also incredibly stupid, as I hope to convey in this column.
The ironic—and tragic—thing is, many of these Leftist totalitarians actually believe that they know how to run your life better than you do. And they believe they can save the planet—from you. The arrogance of these people is immeasurable and maddening to the extreme. Joe Biden is going to FORCE you to drive an electric vehicle because of “climate change.” HE is trying to save the earth, while YOU are too stupid to understand that your actions will destroy it. So, he wants the totalitarian power to compel you to be saved from yourself. Of course, a lot of totalitarians crave power just because they crave power. Biden wants power, but he might just be dense enough to believe in “man-made climate change.” Regardless, he knows he’s smarter than you are, and he wants to use government power to rob you of freedom so that he can create the kind of warped world HE envisions. That is certainly good totalitarian dogma.
But to my latest Chinese saga. I received an email recently from an American teaching in Beijing. He told me that the university where he works has a 60-year-old foreign teacher who, by all accounts, is an outstanding instructor. This teacher has a Chinese wife and two children, and he wishes to remain and continue teaching at the university next year. And the school definitely wants him back. But, because he is 60 years old now, and China has “retire at 60” and “no foreign teachers above 60 years of age” policies, the Beijing bureaucrats absolutely refuse to let the teacher stay. He has to go. Here is a man, a great teacher, doing a great work, HELPING THE CHINESE PEOPLE, but the stupid totalitarian government is booting him out.
As I have pointed out countless times before, totalitarians do not care one bit about the welfare of their people, they only care about power and being obeyed. Here is a perfect example and proof of it. As I said, this guy even has a Chinese wife and two kids. No matter. He’s 60. Vamoose. We say so. Beat it.
I shake my head in sadness and total understanding of that teacher’s situation because it happened to me. I taught five years (from 2011-15) for a joint program between Missouri State University and a Chinese university in Dalian, Liaoning province. No boast, but I was doing outstanding work. I was not just helping students at the university where I taught, but I was meeting students at other schools and people all over Dalian who wanted my expertise and assistance. I was, frankly, doing a great work in Dalian, helping numerous people. I wanted to stay. The college wanted me to stay. The students wanted me to stay. I had letters from other people in Dalian saying they wanted me to stay.
But in June, 2015, I was 60 years old. Guess what happened to poor Marky?
It wasn’t just evil, it was just plain stupid. Why did the Chinese government let me move to China in the first place? Well, ostensibly, to help the Chinese people, especially students. I was doing that, an over-abundance of it. I was still doing it in 2015. Then why force me to leave the country? Can you say, “stupid totalitarianism”?
The poor teacher in Beijing, again, by all accounts, is doing a great work. But he’s got to go. Because stupid, evil totalitarian power is more important to totalitarian dictators like Xi Jinping than helping his own people. That is the thesis of this column, so let me repeat it:
Stupid, evil totalitarian power is more important to totalitarian dictators like Xi Jinping than helping his own people. And it will eventually destroy China.
That is a monumental lesson of history, and it is absolutely why Americans MUST oppose totalitarian Leftism with all their might. The Democrats are trying to hide their own totalitarianism by calling Donald Trump “Adolf Hitler.” That is a common ploy among the totalitarian Left. The imperialistic Soviet Union made almost a living by screeching about “the imperialistic West.” And the ignorant believed it. They believe it in America, too, when Joe Biden calls Trump “Hitler.”
Nothing matters to Leftist totalitarians but their own power. They couldn’t care less how stupid and destructive their policies are as long as they can hold on to power. I only wish the American people could see that. The evidence is certainly available. But people must look at it, and too many won’t.
The 60-year-old teacher in Beijing might be able to find a job elsewhere in China because Xi Jinping’s tentacle, apparently absolute in Beijing now—bureaucrats are utterly terrified at opposing him—haven’t quite reached into the inner recesses of all Chinese provinces yet. I was actually able to go back and stay in China until I was 67. But I couldn’t go back now. Missouri State recently wanted to rehire me and checked into it. No dice. Too old. Xi’s stranglehold will increase until the whole country is in his grip. And so, China, because of its forced retirement/60-year-old age limit loses countless qualified people—domestic and foreign—who are no longer allowed to provide their years of expertise to help the Chinese people.
It’s not just evil. It’s utter stupidity. It’s Leftism. It’s what the Leftist Democratic Party wants to force on America. DEI, anyone?