A divided America: a good time for CCP propaganda - refutation of CCP's ideological brainwashing
A divided America: a good time for CCP propaganda - refutation of CCP's ideological brainwashing
Carl J Chan
In recent days, I have seen several hot videos on social media: Chinese people speaking English with an American accent praised the "Chinese characteristics" and criticized the American system. The actors were different, but the main content of their expressions was the same. They said that China cannot change political parties but can change its guidelines and policies, while the United States can change political parties but cannot change the system; China is a market economy but not capitalism;China uses tax revenue for infrastructure and urban construction;China cannot imagine that oligarchs own 98% of the wealth and control the Politburo.
Unlike European and American cultures that promote diversity, the Communist Party’s official cultural policy has long emphasized that “ideology is a war without gunpowder smoke”, but many children of senior Chinese Communist Party officials live in “degenerate Western society”. This is enough to illustrate the hypocrisy and brainwashing nature of the CCP’s propaganda war.
Rebuttal: China cannot change political parties, but it can change its policies.
High-level lies are not lies, but half-truths and lies that distort the facts. This is why this kind of authoritarian propaganda can resonate with many Americans.
Yes, China's change of "policies" has the efficiency advantage brought by centralization, but don't forget that the "policies" of the Communist Party of China are not based on the will of voters or science or objective facts or ethics, but on the will of government officials: this means that serious bureaucracy and corruption are inevitable, and there is no checks and balances or corrections even for idiotic mistakes.
For example, when I was a child, I lived in southern China. At that time, local government officials advocated "part-time job to get rich"/"green job to get rich", and ordered all public school teachers and government basic employees to plant ginkgo trees, although they had no experience and knowledge in planting ginkgo trees, and no sales system. But ginkgo trees were not distributed for free. "Part-time job to get rich" is imaginable: meaningless waste and zero profit.
This absurd thing is just a small microcosm of dictatorship, not to mention the "policy mistakes" that the CCP downplayed - the Great Famine that caused the deaths of tens of millions of people, and the Cultural Revolution that displaced millions of people and countless unjust cases.
The dictatorial policies that lack public opinion and scientific decision-making are full of absurdities/lies and violence. In the past, present, and future, any dictatorial society is no exception.
Rebuttal: China's taxation is more fair and transparent than that of the United States.
This is another big lie. In democratic countries, people enjoy a broad right to know, and government taxation and expenditure have Basic transparency, but obviously, in any authoritarian country, government taxation and expenditure are not transparent. In China, "party enterprises" or "state-owned enterprises" have a broad monopoly, from natural gas to road construction, from the communications industry to power services. In China, there are no truly "independent large companies". For example, the speech control authority of Chinese Internet companies does not lie with the company itself, but with the "information security department" or "public opinion monitoring department" under the police department. In China, "urban construction companies" in various places monopolize infrastructure projects such as electricity and roads. These "urban construction companies" generally outsource projects to power-related companies or end-point private contractors. Therefore, you can use common sense to conclude that corruption in authoritarian societies is widespread and deep. By the way, in China, whether people have insurance or not, seriously ill patients need to pay a deposit to be admitted to hospital for treatment, which means that the poor can only wait to die.
Rebuttal: There are no oligarchs controlling the Politburo in China.
China does not have wealthy oligarchs in the American sense - in fact, most of the "oligarchs" in the United States are industry elites, they have outstanding personal struggle resumes, they are entrepreneurs who promote social change - even if you do not agree with their products or service models - but you have the right not to cooperate. China's oligarchs are the Chinese Communist Party itself, and they are the core team of the Chinese Communist Party's power system. When we talk about social status, in China, the most important thing is not whether you are “rich”, but whether you belong to the power system. In China or any authoritarian society, whether it is a rich person or a person who works like a slave for three meals a day, they will lose their personal freedom because of political dissent. From this perspective, the rich or people with social prestige are often more cautious than ordinary people.
This is also why, in an authoritarian society, no matter how hardworking and intelligent the people are, their degradation is essentially irreversible and individual conscience is a luxury. Once an economic crisis or policy errors occur in such a society, the people's suffering is far more widespread and severe than in democratic countries.
Americans, if I told you about the ridiculous prices in China, maybe you would be more grateful for your life instead of complaining about inflation.
Suppose a person's income is 5000/month, in the US, a cup of coffee costs 3-5, but in China it costs 30-50;in the US, a buffet that may feed you until you need an oxygen tank costs 16-22, but in China it costs 200. in the US, 1 pound of pork costs 2,in China it is 15.If you are Muslim, there is no pressure of pork, yes, you will have different pressure in China.
So, my dear, please give America more gratitude.
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About the author: Grew up in China; left the Communist school at 14; He was probably the only kid who publicly protested teacher's cheating demands at age 8 in china; perhaps the only guy in the world who improvised a performance art at North Korean customs: when entering North Korean customs, he deliberately avoided the manual inspection of North Korean soldiers——to test whether individuals could Uncooperative in one of the most terrible dictatorships in the world and he succeeded, the North Korean soldiers ignored him or didn't care about him. He wrote with the help of Google Translate.