PureInsight | March 7, 2005
[Pureinsight.org] We often hear this from our Chinese friends, "Hey, please don't talk about it anymore because I am not interested in politics, whatever it is!" In the past, I had the same point of view. I thought I would not care about politics as long as I was making money! Many people think, "The Chinese government changes its policies constantly. The Chinese people have suffered from so many previous political struggles. Politics is a dirty word. Good people do not get involved with politics." After the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4th, 1989, the Chinese Communist Party has continuously promoted the idea that whoever participates in politics harbors ulterior motives and whoever wants to get involved in politics intends to overthrow and destroy the government. Nearly all Chinese people think unconsciously that participating in politics is a wrong thing and is a matter that good people should neither do, nor participate in. That notion was created by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) propaganda. Since then, people only care about making more and more money. No one dares to say anything about the rule of the CCP.
Is participating in politics really a crime? Why can't we get involved?
Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Republic of China, once said, "Politics is taking care of common people's matters." Politics is supposed to be a neutral word. Whether the word has good or bad connotations depend on how people think. Mainland China is called "The People's Republic of China." Since it is the People's Republic, it certainly implies that people should get involved in politics and discuss governmental affairs. If Chinese people are all not interested in politics, how can the people become owners of the nation? If a helmsman like Mao Zedong reappears, creating tremendous turmoil through movements such as the Great Cultural Revolution, what can we do? In reality, people should not simply participate in politics, but try to participate more in politics. Otherwise, a dictator can rule China without anyone objecting. How can our nation be called the People's Republic? It doesn't make sense.
Why doesn't the Chinese Communist Party want people to participate in politics? The reason is simple. The CCP pretends that it represents the people. In reality, the CCP is more totalitarian than nearly any other regime in the world. In China, people have no right to speak out, let alone participate in politics and discuss political affairs. Many people are suffering from wrongful treatment, without due legal process, or their right to appeal. If they appeal their mistreatment, they will be branded as disturbers of the peace, destroying social stability. In order to control people like sheep, the Chinese Communist Party hypes up "participating in politics" as a negative label. "Participating in politics" becomes the Chinese Communist Party's club that strikes the dissidents, and tames the people.
What actually does the CCP want to tell the Chinese people? It is "Follow my political club. Hate the ones I tell you to hate. Scold the ones I tell you to scold."
After straightening out our thinking, we have no difficulty finding the Chinese Communist Party's scoundrel tricks on the word "politics." From now on, we should not give in to Chinese Communist Party's rhetoric. We should stand up without being manipulated, walk according to our consciences, and be the masters of our own affairs.
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2004/12/31/30508.html
