Hillary never apologizes. Reid never apologizes. Pelosi never apologizes. Barack never apologizes for anything he has done. Leftists don’t apologize. Why Republicans allow the press and Democrats to manipulate them into apologizing escapes me.
1) Rule #1, don’t do or say anything you might have to apologize for. Be a virtuous person in you private and public behavior.
2) No matter what, don’t apologize.
For your edification... BRAINWASHING Edgar H. Schein
Center for International Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts Dec. 1960
Thus, to be a good Communist in the end was tantamount to being unselfish, modest, considerate, willing to take responsibility and so on, each defined, of course, in terms of the person's relationship to the government. To be unselfish meant to be willing to pay ever higher taxes to the government.
37 pages long but well worth the time. A public apology (self-confession) is part and parcel of the re-education process. Don't think for a minute he didn't know what he was doing by asking for one.
Fifty shades of Xi – China’s confessional politics of dominance
A long-established practice in Communist China, the act of self-confession, or jiantao, is a psychological tool of power, about commanding deference and enforcing docility. In Notes of the Shamed, the essayist Mo Luo wrote that the ritual of self-confession — also known as “self-criticism” or “self-denunciation” — is about “exercising control over the spirit,” and “one of the principal means of [ideological] education and rule employed by those who wield power in China.”