admin
Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, sounded a clear alarm on Fox & Friends Weekend about what she calls growing Chinese influence inside American schools and communities. Her firsthand account of living under a regime that controlled education, speech and daily life should unsettle every parent who still believes our schools are neutral ground. The fact that a living witness of communism is pleading with Americans to wake up ought to end the naive insistence that foreign ideologies can’t take root here.
Fleet didn’t mince words: socialism, she warned, is the first step down a slippery slope toward full authoritarian control, and many young Americans back policies they do not truly understand. She told hosts that under Mao the state dictated not only what children learned, but where people lived, what work they did, and how they thought — a chilling reminder of the stakes. This isn’t abstract theory; it’s the lived experience of someone who fled because the system crushed freedom at every turn.
On the topic of education policy, Fleet even compared modern affirmative-action experiments to class-based practices she saw in Maoist China, arguing that engineered “equity” often masks political control. Whether one agrees with every point or not, her charge that these policies can be weaponized to reorder opportunity and thought deserves serious debate — not sneers from elites. Conservatives should stop pretending that well-meaning policy experiments can’t have illiberal consequences when left unchecked.
Those concerns are not limited to anecdotes; lawmakers and state officials have been pushing back against hidden foreign influence in classrooms and school boards, even introducing bills to force transparency about foreign funding. If school districts are accepting money or “in-kind” support connected to hostile regimes, parents have a right to know and act, and state governments have a duty to protect civic institutions. This is common-sense oversight, not xenophobia, and any politician who calls it otherwise is complicit in abandoning parental rights.
We’ve also seen the dangerous playbook of labeling and silencing dissent that Xi Van Fleet warns about — parents who speak up are sometimes smeared as extremists or worse, while the institutions that serve our children dodge scrutiny. That tactic of canceling and delegitimizing opposition was honed under communist regimes and is now being used domestically to protect agendas. Americans who love liberty must reject the same censorship methods that destroyed families and cultures under communism.
The remedy is straightforward and patriotic: restore true transparency in education, empower parents with final say over curricula, and halt any programs tied to adversarial foreign governments. We should ban government-funded foreign propaganda in schools and require full disclosure of outside grants and partnerships so communities can decide what aligns with American values. If conservatives want to win the larger cultural fight, we start in the classroom and stand unapologetically for freedom.
Xi Van Fleet’s warning is a wake-up call for every citizen who cherishes liberty: complacency is how freedoms are lost. It’s time for voters, parents, and lawmakers to act with urgency — to protect our children, our history, and the very idea of America from ideologies that erase choice and crush dissent. We must listen to those who have seen the endgame and refuse to let their nightmares become our reality.
