How to be a moderate in an age of extremism

When we look at CSIS' obsession with China we need to look past the propaganda which is somewhat difficult to do in this era where we are constantly bombarded with lies. How then do we be a moderate in an age of extremism? Wait 'till I tell ye. 

As I said in my new free eBook, the first step is to take the blinders off and open our eyes. Look past partisan politics. Once we can see clearly, everything else will fall into place. 

Right now CSIS is obsessing over China and there isn't anything CSIS says or does that I trust. They have an agenda tied to the International Intelligence community and promoting civil liberty is not part of that agenda. 

They support the UN's New World Order. In many ways so does China and Russia. So the Five Eyes beef with China and Russia isn't opposing Communism. It's about who controls the Communism once it's in place. I submit that it doesn't matter who controls it because Communism itself is flawed. 

Yet I oppose the Helms Burton law and the current cruel blockade of Cuba. I oppose the punitive sanctions and fertilizer bans in North Korea and I oppose the horrific destruction of Libya and betray of Gaddafi. 

I don't trust Xi Jinping. I admit he is far more shrewd that Trump. Trump 2.0 is a brash a*s. When Trump posted a picture of him dressed like Jesus, people asked if Trump was the Antichrist. My response was no, Trump 2.0 is not the Antichrist, he's an Antichrist. Trump 2.0 isn't smart enough to be the Antichrist.

The real Antichrist will portray himself as a peacemaker. Despite his delusional claims, Trump 2.0 is anything but a peacemaker. The real Antichrist will be far more shrewd and deceptive. Trump 2.0 is a rage baiter. The real Antichrist won't be. 

I made a podcast about why I feel Xi Jinping and Putin have betrayed the Palestinian people. Take a look at the before and after pictures of Gaza. If you want to be an advocate for Gaza, it's a little bit late. 

Putin and Xi Jingping have an agenda just like Stalin had an Agenda when he helped liberate Poland from Hitler. Recently Mick Wallace made an Orwellian post claiming that Stalin liberated Europe form the Nazis. 

Stalin did not liberate eastern Europe. Stalin used Hitler's extremism to justify his own extremism and these are the two extremes we are constantly bombarded with.

They keep raging about a battle between Communism and Fascism. It's not a struggle between the two. It's a rejection of both. It's not one or the other it's something else. A balance between the two. 

Yet when you're constantly bombarded with one extreme or the other its hard to be a moderate. Well not really. It's just that the voices of the moderates are being drowned out by the constant screams of the extremists. That's because they don't want moderates or common sense. They want to push the extremes. 

They want to push the boundaries by promoting extremism one way or the other. Ya see! Fascism is so bad we have to embrace Communism. Nope. Fascism is bad. It's horrible. That doesn't men we have to embrace Communism. It just means we have to renounce Fascism. It's that simple. 

Now before I take the spec out of Xi Jinping's eye, let me remove the board from Putin's eye and from Netanyahu's delusion. Netanyahu is straight up evil. Netanyahu is committing atrocities based on lies and the mainstream media is enabling him by grooming those lies. 

Don't worry, the mainstream media will eventually flip on Netanyahu but not until the depopulation quotas are met and the real Antichrist has gained enough power and public acceptance to use those atrocities to justify his agenda. 

Putin is  bad man. He also craves power and he also has an agenda. The CIA provoked the conflict in the Ukraine and Putin exploited that conflict to fulfill his own agenda. That war could have been solved in 48 hours but it wasn't simply because Putin refused to leave. Then he came out of the closet and raised a white marble statue of Stalin in the Moscow subway station. That was delusional.  

Xi Jinping is a million times better than Trump 2.0 yet he too seeks power and has an agenda. I don't share CSIS' hate for China. China has made significant progress on human rights. Some could rightly argue not near enough but they have made progress and I believe China's human rights record will improve though diplomacy not defamation or military intervention.

Bill Majcher loves Hong Kong. So do many others. My son's been all over Asia. He's been to Hong Kong twice. He says it's very nice but a bit expensive so he normally stays in a smaller town in China just north of Hong Kong when he visits. 

My son came back from Shenzhen in China with a really cool pen that scans text in a book then reads it out loud and translates it into any language you want. It's amazing. He loves Vietnam. Vietnam had more freedom than we did during COVID. 

When we travel we're more open to the culture and traditions of others and are less desirous to wipe them out of existence. That's kind of a really unhealthy response to cultural diversity. 

I do have friends who are Falun Gong and their persecution breaks my heart. At first I thought, just kiss the guy's ring. Acknowledge Xi Jingping, don't try to overthrow him and just do your own thing. Live your own life. If you stop trashing him, he might leave you alone and let you live in peace. 

Maybe not. It was just a thought. The fact is, organ harvesting of political prisoners is evil. It's not as in your face as the genocide in Gaza or Lebanon but it is evil. 

I'd like to visit China and I have no desire to overthrow their government. Right now we're not in a place to judge anyone else for bad governments because our bad governments are creating havoc around the world. 

I'd like to visit Vietnam and I have no desire to overthrow their government. I think their government is doing a better job than our government is. I'd like to visit North Korea and I have no desire to overthrow their government. I'd like to see the sanctions and blockade come to an end to ease their sufferring so they can have fertilizer and feed their people. Starving people we don't like or agree with is not a very nice thing to do. We should be ashamed of ourselves. 

So when you think about it, being a moderate in this defiant era of extremism isn't really that difficult after all. You just have to see through the lies and do you. Like Abe Lincoln said "Stand with any man as long as he stands right and part with them when they go wrong." It's that simple. All this blind extremism is toxic and it's not a choice between one or the other. It's rejecting both extremes and finding  balance between the two. Peace.