Historian Lee Smith provides a fascinating account of how American politicians, bureaucrats, corporate executives, and cultural leaders have spent decades selling out their country – and countrymen – to do business with the CCP.
The bad news is the horrific damage this “China Class'” has caused by promoting tyranny under the guise of “globalism.” The good news is that like the sell-outs in ancient Athens, the regime of these elitists will not last long.
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“What seems clear is that Biden’s inauguration marks the hegemony of an American oligarchy that sees its relationship with China as a shield and sword against their own countrymen. Like Athens’ Thirty Tyrants, they are not simply contemptuous of a political system that recognizes the natural rights of all its citizens that are endowed by our creator; they despise in particular the notion that those they rule have the same rights they do. Witness their newfound respect for the idea that speech should only be free for the enlightened few who know how to use it properly. Like Critias and the pro-Sparta faction, the new American oligarchy believes that democracy’s failures are proof of their own exclusive right to power—and they are happy to rule in partnership with a foreign power that will help them destroy their own countrymen.”
“What does history teach us about this moment? The bad news is that the Thirty Tyrants exiled notable Athenian democrats and confiscated their property while murdering an estimated 5% of the Athenian population. The good news is that their rule lasted less than a year.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants