Posted on 06/25/2021 2:50:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Shanghai (AFP) - Wang Ying is young, educated and an unquestioning believer in the Communist Party's sole right to rule China -– exactly what the increasingly conformist institution seeks as it enters a new century.
As the ruling body celebrates its 100th birthday on July 1, current members describe an increasingly cult-like atmosphere under leader Xi Jinping, propagandising successes such as its control of the coronavirus, and viewed as the only viable saviour for China.
"Belief in the Party is steadfast. Perhaps not as deep as a religion like Buddhism or Christianity, but something that fosters self-discipline," said Wang, a partial pseudonym to protect the Party member's identity.
The membership focus of the Chinese Communist Party has continually evolved, from intellectuals, to the proletariat, and welcoming entrepreneurs from the 1990s.
Despite outward appearances, analysts say, it has always entertained a wide range of views on China's direction, but that resulted in factionalism, inefficiency and corruption.
Members interviewed by AFP across China say Xi has tightened criteria to weed out potential troublemakers, running it more like a private corporation.
Today's multi-layered, more than two-year application process seeks the best and brightest regardless of "class" background, they said, with a premium on youth, college educations, and spotless personal histories as the Party looks to its future.
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The similarities between Communists and Democrats in this article are hard NOT to notice
Wang Ying is very likely a well paid (by the CCP) influencer. There are many like him on YouTube spouting the wonders of China under CCP rule. That would be the same CCP that created most of China’s problems since Mao, and the fixed them by creating more problems. Shortage of vocational workers? Easy fix. Just change all those college degrees necessary to get a good job to vocational. Watch riots by students now unable to get a job. Watch internal police beating, arresting, killing students
Mentally ill people are known to follow a specific profile of behavior, unlike normal people who all have very different characters and do not pick from the mold their character or ways to alleviate their symtpoms.
This being said, ironically, atheism and communism in China are somewhat of a fiction in itself, simply because a french atheist or a Chinese atheist could not be more different. This is why these are religious like factions. Churchill probably felt it when he predicted the atheist communistoid Hitler/Germans would get in a fight eventually with Russians.
To wit, a Russian communist atheist with his Mother Russia as a phallic mother is a typical pattern example of this pseudo-atheism. The phallic mother nation acts as a firewall between the Russian communist and God. This is not atheism, but concealment from God in nationalistic perverted narcissistic skirts.
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