OPINION:
DENVER, Colorado — The deep staters of America — the ones Sen. Chuck Schumer said had “six ways from Sunday at getting back” at opponents — have struck again, have drummed up some more indictments against former president Donald Trump, hoping to kill his 2024 White House aspirations along with everything the Constitution stands for: law, order, justice, equality, and oh, just to repeat for those in the back of the room, law, order and law.
This isn’t about Trump.
This is about the left’s utter hatred for defenders of America First ideals that stand in way of Great Reset-like globalism.
Trump is not a threat to America.
Trump is a threat to globalists and communists.
Democrats, if they truly cared about the fate of the Constitution and the future of American liberty, would be going after the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the World Health Organization. Deep staters, if they actually loved this country more than their dreams of running governments of the world from behind dark curtains, would turn eyes toward China and the communists’ growing, growing, ever-growing data collections that are used in the development of surveillance and tracking technology.
Deep staters and Democrats, if they genuinely cared about the future of American liberties, would pool their resources and with Republicans, with conservatives, look for ways to sabotage China and its W.E.F., W.H.O., U.N. allies, and to stop the CCP in its Belt and Road Initiative-spreading tracks from a) advancing its cultural propaganda; b) strengthening its economic footprint; and c) developing and normalizing its anti-privacy, anti-freedom artificial intelligence and technologically-based social justice scoring devices and products and systems.
China gobbles up data on its citizens like a kid tasting chocolate for the first time.
The CCP then uses that data to advance technology that is used largely to control citizens. And as President Xi Jinping has made clear: China’s goal is to rule the world.
“Xi Jinping’s Vow of World Dominance by 2049 Sends Chill Through Markets,” Bloomberg wrote in October, 2022.
Well, more chill is coming.
How can a country like America, with a Constitution that regulates political behavior and requires leaders to remain accountable to the people, compete in a technological war against communist cockroaches that have zero respect for human rights?
That is the question of the decade. And the answer is: On surface, it can’t. On surface, America must either lose its Constitution or lose the technology battle. That’s dismal. That’s bleak. But there are back doors ways to keep China at bay without compromising American’s liberties, though it requires a collaborative approach among the various political war machines on Capitol Hill. It’s called sabotage. It’s called take the CCP’s ways — and shove them back in the CCP’s face, ten times as hard. America could beat the CCP at its own game, if the political will, if the intelligence agency will, existed.
If America’s deep state intelligence forces were put to work sabotaging China’s communist advances, instead of wasting time, energy and resources going after Trump and Trump’s family and Trump supporters — not to mention parents who only want to resist School Boards from stealing away their children, or Christians who serve in the military — then perhaps the peril from the CCP wouldn’t be so great.
Perhaps America might emerge from the feckless Joe Biden administration with some sort of liberty still intact.
But collaboration isn’t exactly the Democrats’ way. Neither is fighting globalism — or communism. It hits too close to Democrats’ own homes and loves; that’s why.
So we get this, instead: “Democrats called former president’s indictment an ‘affirmation of the rule of law,’” Fox News wrote, in a reaction piece to the newest legal battles facing Trump.
Come on now. How many times are Americans expected to suffer fabricated attacks of leftists against Trump — against America First beliefs — before leftists move on to something new? It’s Russia collusion all over again; if secret documents were really an issue then Biden would be quaking in his shoes.
China is the problem.
America’s already lost precious time fighting the CCP by believing, years ago, that China, if given proper economic opportunity, would leave behind its communist ways and join the world of free-thinking, free market types. Thus, business worlds were opened and America’s political class began treating China’s markets as friends. That was a mistake of Republicans as well as Democrats.
Guess what.
Turns out, the communists didn’t drop their communism but rather sought for subtle and not-so-subtle ways to spread their commie ways to America and around the world.
America’s places of higher learning; America’s Hollywood; America’s social media; America’s businesses — these all became infiltrated by CCP teachings and CCP messaging, with a CCP long-term goal of taking over the country without having to fire a shot.
It’s the artificial intelligence and technology fronts that will win the war for world dominance for China, though.
Where America has constitutional boundaries, China has none. Where American citizens demand and receive privacies, Chinese citizens can’t do the same. Where America’s politicians still have to pay heed to laws and at least pretend to do the due diligence of giving mouth service to notions of transparency and accountability, China’s CCP makes its own laws, and with a secret policing system of rooting out the dissenters, is accountable to nobody.
“The long game: China’s grand strategy to displace American order,” Brookings wrote in August, 2021.
The only way America can reel back China is by hitting hard at the nation’s economy — by incentivizing businesses to stop doing business with China; by returning to a time when U.S. manufacturing soared, so as to become more a country of producers rather than consumers; and by putting intel forces to work to do the propaganda and messaging and yes, even military missions of undercutting enemy CCP’s influences around the world. Isn’t that what America’s intel is supposed to do — fight the foreign enemies of America?
Leave Trump alone.
Go after America’s real enemies.
Sabotage, undercut and destroy China’s CCP before it’s too late.
It’s what the taxpayers pay U.S. intelligence to do.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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