Great Leap Forward

[KT2000]

China's Great Leap Forward can serve as a cautionary tale for the new administration One of the worst starvation tragedies occurred then because Mao preferred to use uneducated, inexperienced people to run the agriculture program. The manor in which Mao took control of the government is similar to trump's methods:

"The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce, and reaction against the sociopolitical results of the Soviet's development strategy."[6] Mao ambitiously sought an increase in rural grain production and an increase in industrial activity. Mao was dismissive of technical experts and basic economic principles, which meant that industrialization of the countryside would solely be dependent on the peasants. Grain quotas were introduced with the idea of having peasants provide grains for themselves and support urban areas. Output from the industrial activities such as steel was also supposed to be used for urban growth.[6] Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and they competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas which were based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting non-existent "surpluses" and leaving farmers to starve to death. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump is doing a similar purge of anyone educated working in the US government.

45 million Chinese died due to starvation, forced labor, execution, and other factors related to the campaign.

I wonder how many Americans will die?

[KT2000]

2. My friend who lived through

the Cultural Revolution has told me - people will stop talking about politics at all. As a child she had to walk past hangings. People had reported each other to the authorities.
Americans have big mouths but are weak at the core - what is the rank and file RW except a bunch of complainers.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I have a Chinese neighbor whose father was sent to a camp.

His father was a university professor. He never returned.

My neighbor can hardly talk about the hardships.

Yes I have visited China and they are not allowed to discuss anything of import.
Tourists are told what they can say and not say or their tourist guides will be jailed.

Oh yes Americans love to run their mouths and act tough.
But Trump will easily scare most of them into silence quickly.