Not Innocent at All: China's Youth as Enablers of Tyranny

In China, the fate of young people always appears particularly ironic. On the surface, they are the generations that have been sacrificed: the young adults who starved during the Great Leap Forward, the Red Guards whose futures were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, the migrant workers who exhausted their youth on assembly lines after reform and opening up, and today's urban youth burdened with massive mortgages and struggling with unemployment. The price is indeed being paid by them, but the story goes far beyond this.

The real irony lies in the fact that these young people are not entirely innocent.

I. The Chain of Costs: Betrayal and Survival

The CCP's logic of rule has never been about loyalty to any ideal, but rather about constant betrayal and constant shifts. First, it relied on the Soviet Union; when the Soviets proved unreliable, it turned to the United States. Relying on American orders and dollars, the CCP survived another breath. Who provided the labor force? Young people. Who turned sweat and blood into dollars? Still young people.

Today, when the CCP worries that young people are becoming too wealthy and too independent, it turns to close the door to America and create a "mainland system." The result is that young people are unemployed, their futures cut off, while the elderly enjoy stable pensions. The security of power always comes at the cost of the younger generation.

II. The Cycle of Sacrifice: From Famine to Mortgages

Great Leap Forward: Those who starved were young adults and children.

Cultural Revolution: The most fanatical were the Red Guards, who were eventually sent to the countryside and completely destroyed.

Reform and Opening Up: The hardest workers were migrant workers, selling their youth for export profits.

Today: The most burdened are the mortgage generation, mortgaging their entire lifetime income to the system.

The essence of history has never changed: the elderly harvest, the young pay the bill.

III. Foolish Complicity: Deceived and Voluntary

However, simply portraying young people as "pure victims" is insufficient. The irony lies in the fact that they often actively perform for the lies of the ruling power themselves.

They refuse to read history, refuse to learn, only accepting indoctrination. Thus, anti-American and anti-Japanese slogans become their faith.

They justify their unemployment and hardships, calling it the "price of patriotism."

They even dream of kneeling close to power, becoming system lackeys to get a share of the spoils.

Look at reality: how many Chinese young people support the Communist Party's "recovery of Taiwan"? How many shout about helping Russia fight Ukraine? How many enjoy playing the role of little pink patriots online, cheering for power and justifying violence?

This is not simple deception, but a voluntary complicity. They are clearly victims, yet they fantasize about becoming part of the perpetrators.

IV. The Truth of Parasitism: Mutual Exploitation Between Power and Youth

Thus, an absurd cycle emerges:

The CCP treats young people as a blood bank, extracting labor and money;

Young people, in their delusion, defend the CCP, believing this is the only way to have a "rice bowl," even hoping to use this to exploit their peers.

The parasitic relationship is thus established. The CCP parasitizes on young people, and young people, in order to survive, in turn maintain this parasite.

V. Conclusion: Foolish, But Not Innocent

Therefore, Chinese young people are both the biggest victims and the most absurd accomplices.

Their foolishness lies not only in being exploited and brainwashed, but also in willingly submitting, willingly kneeling, and even finding excuses for their rulers.

This is China's deepest irony: A group of people whose future has been hollowed out are still applauding the regime that hollowed them out.

They are indeed foolish, but they are by no means innocent.