Tim Walz is unlikely to have been brainwashed during his many stays and visits to China, but he sure seems to have a striking love for China and Chinese communism. 

As I have written before, I don't think that pointing out the fact that Kamala Harris is a communist has any political punch, even though she pretty clearly is a communist. Anti-anti-communism is deeply embedded in American culture, unfortunately, which explains why Marxism is taught in colleges, despite the fact that communist regimes have killed far more people than Nazism ever did. 

It was the discrediting of McCarthy in the 1950s that did it, and ever since it has been almost impossible to get people to believe that actual communists are dangerous. It is a sad fact, but a fact nonetheless. 

Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember." Kristallnacht was booked?

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) August 19, 2024

Kamala Harris is now proposing actual communist policies, is in favor of speech controls, and constantly talks about a vision of "equity" in which everybody "winds up in the same place." It's communism, but for some reason, Americans shrug it off as some version of niceness. 

Comrade Kamala is a communist. Champions of equity are always communist tyrants.

Equity is the enemy of excellence. Why should anyone try to be excellent when Daddy government will give you a boost for not trying?

Equity = Death, despair and destruction. pic.twitter.com/BcaWTnMGCb

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 16, 2024

Tim Walz, though, is even more explicit about his affinity for communism. He is such a fan of Chinese communism that he went to teach in China just after the Tiananmen Square massacre, got married on the 5-year anniversary so he could "remember the date," and honeymooned in China. He spent the next few decades taking kids to China for indoctrination, praising the "sharing" culture that communism creates. 

#KamalaHarrisForward I believe VP Kamala Harris and her VP pick Tim Walz are our best chance to move forward. They are our best chance to push back on encroaching fascism and threats to democracy, and our best chance for creating the world we all desire and deserve. Politics is… pic.twitter.com/8tTuLfIbEw

— Shepard Fairey (@OBEYGIANT) August 15, 2024

You don't need to rely on right-wing sources to glean this information. Walz has been quite open about his love of Chinese communist ideology and practice. 

As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing.

"It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares," Walz said during a lesson on China's communist system in November 1991. "The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing."

Walz's remarks were reported in a 1991 article in Nebraska's Alliance Times-Herald that focused on his work on student exchange programs in China. At the time, Walz was teaching social studies at a Nebraska high school.

While Harris has adopted price controls and seizing patents as her initial policies, Walz has gone further and actually praised government control of the distribution of food in a political environment that uses a social credit system to rank people's worth. 

If Kamala Harris is willing to use the U.S. government to seize patents from their owners—and make no mistake, that’s exactly what she’s saying in this video—what other forms of property will she take away from Americans?#Kamunism pic.twitter.com/gjesJK0KCV

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) August 18, 2024

Communism. 

Michael Sobolik, a China expert and the author of Countering China's Great Game, said Walz's comments to students were a "shockingly naïve description of the Chinese Communist Party's rule."

"American students need to learn the horrific truths of communism and the horrors this dangerous ideology has wrought over the past century," said Sobolik. "Gov. Walz should clarify his comments and share his impression of communism in 2024."

Walz's rosy description of communism in China is similar to his recent controversial remark that "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness." It also reflects his longstanding ties to the country.

The candidate "always has been fascinated by Communist China," according to a profile about him published in Nebraska's Star-Herald in 1994. As a child, he recalled seeing "pictures of Mao Tse-tung, hung in public places and carried in parades," the paper reported.

Walz first traveled to China on a year-long teaching fellowship in 1989, months after the Chinese Communist Party slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy activists and student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

Despite the country's turmoil, Walz—a 25-year-old National Guardsman at the time—wrote in a letter to one of his former college professors that he was "being treated like a king" in China.

That's how communism works. If you are among the elect you get treated especially well; if you are not you are sent out into the fields to do work for the people as you get "re-educated."

Reeducation and Walz go together. 

After returning to the United States in the early 1990s, Walz started leading trips to China for American high school students, with support from the Chinese government. The trips were "arranged by a friend of Walz in China's foreign affairs department," the Star-Herald reported at the time. The Chinese government also provided some of the funding for the program, according to a 1993 article in the Star-Herald.

Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember." The Walzes spent their honeymoon in China. They also founded a travel company, Educational Travel Adventures Inc., which specialized in trips to China.

Tim Walz maintained public ties to Chinese educational institutes until at least 2007, when he was elected to Congress. He was a visiting fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University until 2007, according to reports.

Unfortunately, none of this matters politically. Americans are inured to accusations, real or not, of being a communist. It is just assumed that the accusations are hyperbole or simply false. You could produce videos of candidates praising Karl Marx and Stalin and the mainstream media would run interference for them and ordinary folks would shrug. Not because they are OK with communism, but because they simply don't believe that any communists could rise to power in the United States. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just "neighborliness." pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv

— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) July 30, 2024

Don't believe me? John Brennan voted for communists in his youth and rose to become the Director of the CIA. And it's not like he had an anticommunist come to Jesus moment. He just shut up about his communist sympathies. 

Honestly, couldn't you find a CIA Director who had never voted for communists out of the 350 million Americans?

It doesn't matter. Communists are immune from criticism. Hell, Kamala can rip from the Nazi playbook and the MSM runs interference for her. 

Ya know how the left claims Trump uses Nazi talking points? Humm. Funny, do you know what party used the “Joy” pitch in their propaganda before Harris? Yup, the Nazi’s. 😂 pic.twitter.com/ERYd6uyDnQ

— Military Arms (@MAC_Arms) August 18, 2024

It's frustrating, but reality. In order to combat the spread of communism, we need to focus on the policies, not the underlying ideology. Americans are still generally repulsed by communism and socialism; they simply are unimpressed by anybody using the words to describe people. 

So we must use other words to describe the same thing and point people to the socialist policies themselves rather than use the collective terms appropriate to them. 

As is so appropriate in these 1984-like times, reality is erased, and terms are redefined.