Notes to myself: I have been preoccupied with the Xinjiang genocide investigation but the following thoughts came to my mind and I took notes of them in a draft blog. Now that I am done with the Xinjiang case, it’s time to lay them out.
Only Americans can defeat Americans, the biggest, most realistic and most dangerous enemies of this county live right inside it.
The biggest asset of a country is its citizen, the biggest liability of a country is also its citizen. This holds true with or without democracy.
America has a diversity overflow that has turned itself into a social chasm — so deep and so wide that people see each other as enemies, sometimes worthy of killing or physically destroying for.
The challenging reality most people have yet to get a handle on is that American’s foes and American’s friends now could be the same people or even a single person, and they can switch sides within a single day if not within a minute.
This report based on court documents and media records shows that. Only a small percent of the Capitol rioters belong to organizations like Proud Boy and Oath Keepers. Many if not most were random “drifters” into the Capitol, perhaps out of curiosity.
Before the riot they were American friends because they contribute to American GDP and help other Americans, during the riot they were American foes because they helped destroy the very foundation this country was built on. Sadly, one does not have to belong to a fixed organization or entity to cause great damage to the country.
The old notion of foes and friends being fixed groups of different individuals is gone and no longer fit the reality anymore.
The old way of affixing either an “Enemy” or a “Hero” label on people’s foreheads doesn’t work anymore. Most likely, they all call themselves “Patriots” and many of them really and honestly believe that are who they are.
Another challenging reality that most have yet to get a handle on is the merging of words and deeds. In this age of mass communications and social media, words are deeds. I will not go that far by saying that deeds and words carry the same weight, but will not rule out the possibility either that sometimes words can cause more damage than deeds, especially when words can travel farther away than deeds with the help of social media.