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a more acute instance of the same tactics/ideology that they've been DOING since the party's inception, yes there was a brief moment where china seemed to be liberalizing ~90s-2010s, that ended with xi's ascendency and picked-up momentum with the covid lockdowns (which was mostly a grift to enrich cadres and provide pretext to (further) clamp down on civil society)
though, the point was more to draw parallels with, or more aptly, describe standard operating procedure of, thuggish demagogues who, lacking much in the way of intellect, "FLEXIBLE REALISM" the masses into accepting flexibly-realistic promises of grandeur (protection from bogey men, riches, etc) but mostly just utilize violence to enrich, legitimizing and insulating said demagogue (and a few cronies) from the consequences or repercussions of the stupid shit their whims and schemes bring about.
hm, with that ideology being whatever is in vogue and readily aids in the manipulation effort (be it capitalism, communism, theology, cult of personality, patriotism, and so forth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAGeFf_Mo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Rog6Kco-w