Leftists Always Subvert

In a piece on the Hong Kong protests, Tim Pool - a self-described liberal - displays an understanding of leftism that even most conservatives fail to grasp. A lot of people in the US are noticing that, while Antifa burns American flags, the Hong Kong protestors are flying American flags and appealing to American history in their struggle for liberty. The natural conclusion then is that Hong Kong protestors have more in common with American traditional values than do America's liberals today, and that our liberals are rejecting the same liberties that other people in the world are willing to die for.

Be careful of that path of though. All that is really on display is that the left is always subversive, wherever it is found. The term itself comes about from the French revolution where loyalists sat on the right wing of Parliament, and revolutionaries on the left wing. Left-wing signifies the group of people who are disloyal to the traditional order. In America they fly Mexican flags to snub their own government; in China and Russia they fly American flags for the same reason. The Hong Kong protesters aren't pro-American so much as they want to snub Beijing.

It isn't so easy to pick a side in this confrontation. It is good and natural that the people of the semi-independent city of Hong Kong would push back against the growing imperialism of Beijing. And yet, it is troubling to see the same kind of left-wing anarchy that has infected the European nations (including America, Canada, etc) show up in Asia. One week it is appeals to equality and the next it'll be Satanic tranny pedophiles at story hour. The Chinese understand that, and I believe they will take firm action to keep out the Western cults of equality and materialism. They have caught a US diplomat meeting with protest leaders, and asserted that it was really a CIA operating under diplomatic cover. I assume they are correct. Thus, the protests are viewed as little more than US-backed subversion against Beijing.

In this battle, the Chinese are the force of order, against the American force of disorder - who are willing to degrade the great formerly British possession to degrade the Chinese empire. The CIA infecting Hong Kong with liberalism in a cold war with China is little different than the US military bombing Hong Kong in a hot war with China. In one scenario the city is degraded and littered with debris, in another the city is degraded and littered with hobos, used needles, and human feces. In either case, Hong Kong is a proxy war between the empires of Columbia and Beijing. The only surprise here is that the CIA is still engaged in battling America's foreign adversaries, rather than just smuggling drugs and conspiring to overturn unauthorized US election results.

While the Chinese are patient, ultimately they will err on the side of handling Hong Kong with force if necessary. Clearly the government of Hong Kong isn't interested in maintaining order, in the same way that US cities no longer rebuke panhandlers or bums sleeping on park benches. China will impose order on Hong Kong before they'll let it degrade into the next cosmopolitan disaster story. Many Republicans will then cry foul, that an attack on American-flag-waving protesters is an attack on America. But in reality, black-clad protestors in China waving American flags are little different from black-clad protestors in America burning American flags.