On Point: Hong Kong's Ballots Challenge Chairman Mao's Gun Barrels
http://www.strategypage.com/on_point/20191126185658.aspx
November 26, 2019
The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement's overwhelming Nov. 24 election victory demonstrates that the city's brave citizens disdain Mao Zedong's political ditties almost as much as they scorn the crooked Chinese Communist Party tyranny the mass-murdering former chairman created.
Mao, who fancied himself a poet and philosopher, declared that political power grows from the barrel of a gun. From the Soviet Kremlin to the University of California, Berkeley to Jane Fonda, the global left waved Mao's Little Red Book, applauded his so-called "thoughts" and proclaimed radical Marxism to be humanity's future.
Hong Kong's 2019 protests and the recent district election results are actions --deeds, not words -- that directly challenge Mao's gun barrel maxim and lay claim to a future where political power expresses the will of free people.
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