主题：Glenn Beck在Fox新闻关于毛泽东的一段视频 -- 冰弹

saying:

If you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart;

but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain.

---Winston Churchill

(BTW, the video is a bad match with Glenn's contents. Crap) But Mao's atrocity is out of question, as well as his great contribution and achievement for China.

I feel so lucky that I did not live under Mao's China. Who knows, you and I might just be one of those disappearing "60m". One death is the loss of a lovely life, two death is just a statistic (Stalin). The problem about left-wing liberals: they are idealists who do not see their own dark side in heart and who do not know how to manage an economy and nation.

They seldomly respect life and property right. Idealism often overshadow other people's right of life and property.

During the French Revolution 200 years ago, left-wing parties used "revolution" to suppress different opinions, which resulted in rounds of bloodshed. Left first killed the so-called right-wing then extreme left jumped in and sent the left to heaven in turn. The last extreme group is called "Jacobian". In China's history book, that Revolution was highly praised as an epoch-making event. If you ask French people TODAY, they would tell you it was a period of tragedy and total chaos. Napoleon was praised partially for ending this revolution period and restore peace and order to France so that people no longer randomly chopped off each other's head.

Today's Chinese had a fading memory of cultural revolution and started to be nostalgic about romanticized Mao era.

My mom sometimes complained about today's China with all kinds of problems. But when I ask her which period is better, today or Mao's era, the answer is firm: TODAY.

One old Chinese lady visited his son in States, who is studying for a Ph.D. here. Her first visit inevitably is filled with many cultural shocks and inconvenience in life: difficult in buying fresh veg, different food/weather; most importantly, no person for chat even on street.

She complained to me for 20 minutes. But when I asked her "whether you will visit America again next year"?

--the answer is a strong Yes.

“中国要警惕右，但主要是防止'左'” ——邓小平, that's a bloody summary of the lessons since French revolution to 1980s.