Back in the 1970s, when hippies were young and San Francisco was the epicenter of a worldwide cultural seismic upheaval, a place in Asia existed called Kampuchea — the revised name for Cambodia, given to it by its new Communist masters. As with the French Revolution revolutionaries, the new revolutionaries of Southeast Asia liked names and renaming things. The people from the cities were “new people.” The people from the poor countryside were “old people.” It is usually better to be new than old, in today’s modern world, but that’s not the way it worked out for the legions of urbanized citizens. They were forced out of the cities and into the farmland, where many of them were executed, for many reasons, but one of which was the trumped up charge of blocking the progress of the farming.

Pol Pot was the leader of the nation. He supposedly died two decades later when the United States was going to bring him to trial. He chose death rather than imprisonment in an American incarceration center. And a wise choice it was! His life was over, the pieces of it in tatters, and his dreams had all been destroyed. What more was there to live for?

A larger percentage of citizenry — almost one-quarter of the total — died at Khmer Rouge (Communist national government) hands than in any other Communist country anywhere. The Communists of Cambodia were particularly brutal. They would throw babies onto bayonets and boil you alive if you crossed them. Today you can pay money to see the remnants of their concentration camps. They’re being operated, rather tackily, as tourist sites, although the government would probably shrug and say they’re just for education purposes…

Pol Pot had this thing about laziness. In Southeast Asia, the French elevated the Vietnamese over the Cambodians because the Vietnamese worked better. Pol Pot abhorred that. He thought the way to correct the defective Cambodian culture was to smash it. By terrorizing the locals he would encourage everyone to do his share in bringing about the agrarian utopia he had planned. It didn’t do much to encourage the Cambodians, as their dismal crop yields went to show. The killing only led to more killings.

The Communist guards were often teenagers. Enticed by power, they decided it was better to be the ones doing the killing than the ones who got axed (or spaded as the case may be).

Rather than neutrally depict the Killing Fields events, site after site on the Internet descends into “never again!” and “they were so brave!” proselytizing that fits the Western democratic-progressive mold. As with its larger cousin The Holocaust, it is impossible to talk without emotional and moral connotations about this event. And all the chest-beating and sob-braying is rendered false by the emoters themselves, who wouldn’t know oppression if a stubbed toe in a darkened luxe dining room counted as one.

It took the Vietnamese army to depose Pol Pot, who made the geopolitical error of invading his neighbor. It turns out the Vietnamese were not only better workers, but better fighters than the little Cambodians.

There are some interesting photos of the Killing Fields and that time period. Here is one site, which I’m honestly surprised doesn’t come with trigger warnings for sensitive souls in the New Age of the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century. The skull in this photo, showing a frayed and ragged blindfold still wrapped around the head, is a deeply telling monument to Politics Run Amok, which Communism certainly was. The lessons of violent Communism? Any attempts to force humanity into an unnatural mold, and to punish it for failure with death, will only result in mass extermination and agonies beyond number. The Western Progressives are continuing to attempt to force humanity into an unnatural mold today with their support for “trans women” and other pet projects they have on the table. The only difference is you aren’t killed (yet) for failing to use the right pronoun and saluting their ideology. It is amusing to note that Western Progressives are exactly the same type of people that filled the upper ranks of Cambodian Communist party groups. Revolutionaries at heart, the Progressive is not satisfied until society has been “uplifted,” “transcended,” and transformed into a new, better world. Violence is perfectly acceptable in pursuit of the Dream.

Whereas the Right, politically, suffers from fascism and oppression of the alien and different, the Left, politically, has a wing that is easy prey for the mindfuckers of extremist egalitarianism. These mindfuckers are expert at making it seem like you brought the punishment on yourself. They orchestrate and coordinate their pogroms with like-minded fellow travelers on the path to never-to-be-arrived-at Utopia. One could argue that the Los Angeles fires were an example of DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) programs (a.k.a. affirmative action) gone awry. An unqualified woman was forcibly promoted to lead the firefighters and she led them straight into the abyss. The United States is willing to be open to promotion to all people, but this is not enough for the Left Wing. In total command of American society, they have sent dictates that DEI is the new “cool thing” and should be supported by everyone. White males are to be shoved aside until sufficient numbers of minorities gain power. Well, that’s what happens when power devolves from the center onto a revolutionary cadre. You get power-moves. Power-moves that happen to justify and validate the power-holders themselves, of course.

A parallel to the DEI supporters is Joseph McCarthy of the 1950s Communist witch-hunts in Washington. McCarthy was an ugly man (physically) who terrorized the United States from the right wing by fanning the flames of Cold War fears into a firestorm of suspicion, supposed treason, and conspiracies: [rampant]. Both McCarthy and the Progressives of today share a batshit crazy way of looking at the world. It doesn’t matter that they are on the “Right” wing or the “Left” wing — they both reside in the Center Lane that is on the Fast Track to H*E*L*L.

Television has made the Left cool. Television has given it its heft. The reason we have gay pride parades today, supported by banks, is because the visual medium so eloquently described by Marshall McLuhan has gone haywire. If there is to be a Killing Fields in North America, those that parallel the 1975-79 ones in Cambodia, they will happen because of television. The boob tube will be to blame, entirely, and those who wrenched its malign, Poltergeist-movie-shifting-light to their side will be cursed for what they will have done…