By CHRISTOPHER MANION
Dr. Leanna Wen is a major player on the Left. She’s a college prof, a Washington Post columnist, and a medical analyst for CNN.
We last saw her when she was fired from her post as president of Planned Parenthood in July.
Why?
She had committed the deadly sin of lamenting the death of the unborn child she had lost in a miscarriage.
As president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Wen had been one of the earliest and most strident advocates of vaccination against the China Virus, and her campaign continues. Last week she turned up the volume by leading the cheers for Joe Biden’s onerous vaccine “mandate.”
Until White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced the mandate on September 9, both she and Biden had repeatedly assured the public not only that Biden would not take that step, but also that it wasn’t even legal for him to do so.
How did the mandate suddenly become legal overnight?
On September 9, the Biden administration was collapsing. Its disastrous Afghanistan exit simply would not go away, and Biden’s poll numbers were plummeting. The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 was two days away, and Biden desperately needed a distraction from the devastating headlines.
The growing anger of the American people was intense, so none of Joe’s usual palaver would suffice. To get their attention, he had to make us mad about something else — so he turned to the tyrant’s tactic (it’s Biden’s “Boldest Move Yet,” crooned MSNBC) of fear:
“Get vaccinated or else!”
Dr. Wen immediately chimed in. By lamenting the death of her unborn child, and then going public about it, she had risked her reputation, as well as her prestigious appointments and her substantial income, by defying the murderous Prime Mandate of the Left. After her loss, she had to recover not only her personal composure, but her public authority after confessing her sin.
So Dr. Wen went ballistic.
“We need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated,” she told CNN hours after Psaki’s announcement.
The major media quickly took up the chant. In order to shove our failed foreign war down the Memory Hole, they started a domestic war — between Joe Biden, representing “the science,” and the unvaccinated, who were the designated enemies not only of Truth but of their fellow man.
“You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want,” Wen told CNN. “But then you can’t go out in public.”
And while the unvaccinated cower in their homes? The Controllers will pump and endless string of new “safety measures” into the pipeline.
That’s the plan.
Lessons From Mao’s Little Red Book
Machiavelli is the master tutor of all tyrants, and he taught them well. Is it “better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?” he asks. “It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved.” (The Prince, Chapter 17).
Haven’t the lockdowns taught us our lesson? Don’t we realize who is in charge? If we don’t love our masters for “keeping us safe,” then we’d darned well better fear them, or the Dr. Wens of the World Controller’s Office will lock us down again.
And that’s not all: the Chinese Communist Party offers an even more progressive step in our “safety conditioning.” For the Uyghurs in Xinxiang Province, the Chinese generously provide reeducation camps, accompanied by forced labor, to train the dangerous Moslem masses not only to obey their atheist Marxist rulers, but to love them for emancipating them from their backward ways.
Those who simply refuse to comply are quietly “disappeared,” their organs offered for sale through domestic and international medical channels.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Red Guards held “struggle sessions” designed to torture “class criminals” both physically and mentally. The goal and the methods were similar to those of Orwell’s Room 101, where Winston learned to love Big Brother, and they are the goals today’s tyrants attempting their own cultural revolution.
After all, anyone can be feared — a thug with a gun is all it takes. But to be feared and loved?
OK, Mao, What Do I Do Now?
But our rulers face certain impediments. Take China: as the virus continues to wrack the country, Joe Biden is desperate to distract us from the obvious: the virus is a biological weapon created and unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party from its Wuhan Lab.
Should Biden tell the truth and act on it?
Maybe not: if he turns on his ChiCom benefactors, they will ruin China Joe in a heartbeat.
And Joe is not alone. Dr. Wen has a powerful reason to avoid the China connection as well. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) enjoys a virtual partnership with the China Family Planning Association, an official organ of the Chinese Communist Party.
According to IPPF’s website, “The China Family Planning Association (CFPA) plays an important role in providing information and education and promoting voluntary family planning in China. Thanks to its millions of volunteers throughout the country, CFPA provides Chinese people with family planning, maternal and child health, healthier childbearing and adolescent sexual and reproductive health, both information and services.”
“Voluntary”? Perhaps voluntary at the point of a gun, while those “millions of volunteers throughout the country” served as informants to the murderous butchers who rounded up millions of “illegally-pregnant” women and submitted them to forced abortions for thirty-five years of the “One-Child” policy.
Neither Dr. Wen nor Joe Biden want you to think “China” when it comes to the virus. Karl Marx would call it a “forbidden question.”
Detritus
Joe Biden can’t make the China connection go away. And he can’t make his Afghan collapse go away either. He has just created a well-armed and well-financed Jihadi army, thanks to the America taxpayer. These disasters will haunt us for years, long after Joe has gone back to his basement.
George W. Bush has a similar problem. He wanted to “rid the world of evil,” but it just didn’t work. He doesn’t want us to ask why, but we must. And we will.
The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 featured somber and moving memorials to those who died that day, and the countless heroes who tried to save them.
George Bush spoke at a ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Flight 93 Memorial. After praising those heroes, as well as the troops that he sent abroad to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, he didn’t humbly reflect on his own role, warts and all. The hubris still abides.
Instead, flanked by Dick Cheney, he lashed out with a thinly-veiled attack on his critics and the voters who had turned against his Big Government Conservatism at home and his wars to export democracy abroad.
His rancor runs deep, not only to 2016 but to 2006 and 2008. The people just didn’t get it. He wasn’t wrong, not at all. His belief in an imperial America and the prospect of a secular, democratic Afghanistan endures.
“The Taliban cannot crush a dream.” He still believes it.
And who constitutes the greatest danger to our country today? The “violent extremists at home.”
Perhaps he believes that parroting Pelosi and appeasing the imploding Establishment will persuade future historians to let that be the last word on his legacy. It won’t.
Maybe it just makes him feel better. But if he won’t confront reality, we must.
Back to the long, hard slog.
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