[iAm25626]

History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes. Komsomol/Soviet, Red guards/China. Ideology fan the flame of youth into fanatic. Who/what is providing the necessary guardrail? God speed America. Future belong to the young. Make good/long term decision.

[yongjik]

The similarity with Red Guards is too uncanny to ignore.

I guess we should be thankful that the new Red Guards aren't beating federal employees to death. Yet.

[kragen]

The Trump-supporting Red Guards might be the Michigan Militia? Or the marchers at the disastrous "Unite the Right" rally? Those are tiny fringe groups orders of magnitude too weak to carry out a Cultural Revolution. Maybe the 1500 people who got pardoned for the January 6 riot?

You may not be aware of this, but the Red Guards were over 10 million people.

[iAm25626]

I sincerely hope my analogy is just me being chicken little/sky is falling.

In the physical world, inflicting large-scale harm requires a significant number of people wielding fists or basic weapons. The digital landscape not so much.

Most techies belong to as Terry Pratchett put it "'skilled artisans', the people too low down the social scale to be movers and shakers but slightly too high to be easily moved or shook."

I think I will be ok but empathized those who will be negatively impacted.