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September 11, 2025
Of the many moving tributes to Charlie Kirk, this one sticks out …
I'll start.
Charlie was a seeker of the truth in a world where truth has been inverted. He was a man of courage. A man of God. And he was targeted for it — because he was effective.
If we look at the numbers, among 18–29 year-old men, voter preference swung from +26 Democrat in 2023 to +18 Republican in 2025. That’s a 44-point swing in two years. Charlie was the force behind that change.
He was effective resistance to the "progressives'" ongoing cultural revolution, and he was silenced.
Yet as Scripture shows, persecution never silences truth — it amplifies it.
That brings me to the bigger picture — the “why” behind so much of the disruption and chaos we’ve all lived through over the past five years.
We’ve talked often in these notes about the strategy behind the Trump tariffs/ “trade war.”
At its core, it has always been about China.
For decades, China has manipulated its currency to undercut global competitors, corner export markets, and build the world’s largest war chest of foreign currency reserves.
What did they do with that capital?
They used it to buy global influence (including inside the U.S.) — in politics, academia, corporations, media, and medicine.
And they expanded economic warfare into what is now “hybrid warfare”: economic, psychological, biological, informational, political, and cyber.
It's no secret that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has an explicit goal of global dominance. Against that backdrop, it’s not difficult to connect the dots and see their fingerprints on the societal deterioration of the West.
It's the Mao Zedong playbook.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was built on the idea that revolution must be continuous, that culture itself had to be torn down to make room for the Party’s control. It meant erasing traditions, mobilizing youth against authority, dividing society into oppressors and oppressed, and keeping the population in constant turmoil.
Here’s how ChatGPT maps it against events we’ve seen in the U.S. since COVID:
| Mao’s Playbook |
U.S. Since COVID (2020–present) |
| Continuous Revolution: Mao promoted never-ending campaigns to destabilize society and prevent consolidation of alternative power bases. |
Perpetual Crisis Atmosphere: COVID, racial protests, election disputes, climate urgency — each framed as existential, requiring constant mobilization and policy upheaval. |
| Youth Mobilization: Red Guards targeted teachers, officials, even family; youth seen as vanguard of disruption. |
Youth-Led Movements: Large student/activist protests (BLM, climate strikes, campus demonstrations), often aimed at challenging authority, history, and institutions. |
| Class Struggle: Society split between “the people” vs. “class enemies.” Guilt by background, not actions. |
Identity/Ideological Divides: Sharp polarization into oppressed vs. oppressors; individuals judged by group identity (race, gender, privilege) rather than individual actions. |
| Destroy the “Four Olds”: Old ideas, culture, customs, habits targeted — temples destroyed, texts burned, names changed. |
Statue Takedowns & Renaming: Historical monuments (Washington, Jefferson, Columbus, Confederate leaders) removed; schools, streets, teams renamed to purge “offensive” legacies. |
| Control Through Chaos: Mao encouraged factional struggles and uncertainty so people turned to him as arbiter. |
Social Division & Uncertainty: Conflicting rules on lockdowns, masks, vaccines, protests; shifting definitions of misinformation; frequent policy reversals keeping people unsettled. |
| Propaganda & Personality Cult: Mao’s slogans, images, and Little Red Book saturated society; dissent equaled disloyalty. |
Media/Big Tech Messaging: Unified narratives around COVID protocols, racial equity, election legitimacy; dissent deplatformed, censored, or stigmatized as dangerous. |
| Re-education & Labor: Intellectuals, “class enemies” sent to countryside for re-education through labor. |
Cancel Culture & Sensitivity Training: Individuals losing jobs for misaligned views; mandatory diversity/equity training; reputational punishment functioning as ideological correction. |
| Erasing Tradition to Reshape Identity: Goal was to sever ties with past so only Party ideology remained. |
Historical Revisionism: Projects reframing U.S. founding (e.g., 1619 Project); debates over whether America is fundamentally good/evil; push to redefine national identity around equity. |
Mao engineered chaos and cultural destruction to centralize control and remake identity.
In the U.S., post-COVID, while the context and severity differ (no mass famine, labor camps, or Mao-level death toll), many tactics are similar: reliance on perpetual crisis, use of youth activism, identity-based division, removal of monuments, ideological conformity enforced via social and corporate pressure, and historical revisionism to reshape collective memory.
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