Coming soon to America: Signs point to communist horrors of Chinas Maoist past

In her new book, “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning,” anti-communist advocate Xi Van Fleet recounts all the troubling signs indicating that America’s present is rapidly coming to resemble China’s Maoist past. She should know.  Xi was in school when the Cultural Revolution burst upon the Chinese landscape in 1966 with all the violence of a late summer hurricane.Big Character posters on the walls of her school — where classes had been suspended — carried the shocking news that the country she was living in was rotten to the core.  China’s history, its traditions, its literature, its very culture, all had to be cancelled.Chairman Mao Zedong had said so.  As Xi recounts in “Mao’s America,” she watched in shock as beloved teachers were publicly humiliated in “struggle sessions” that grew ever more violent over time.Encouraged by Mao, the students then organized into paramilitary units called Red Guards and began to attack society as a whole.  They rampaged through cities and towns, destroying churches, temples, libraries and museums.  They burned books, beheaded statues, and smashed priceless antiques wherever they found them.They broke into the homes of those who had been declared by the Party to have a “bad class background.”In the midst of this terror, you were either with Mao or you were a counterrevolutionary “People turned against each other in search of enemies and in defense of Mao,” Xi writes. “Friends turned against friends, neighbors against neighbors, coworkers against coworkers, and family members.”Competing Red Guard factions soon graduated from shouting quotations from Chairman to each other to open warfare and mass killing.  Such was the hatred sown that political cannibalism — eating of the hearts and livers of defeated enemies— was reported in many parts of the country.  Xi herself had nightmares for years about corpses,“with eyes gouged out and the body cut open.”Robbed of their education, ...