Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the newly formed People's Republic of China began what they called, "The Great Leap Forward" which resulted in a great leap backward, and the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, due mostly to famine caused by the government's failure to raise enough food to feed its citizens. Although Chairman Mao faded into the background for a while because of his plan's failure, he returned to power years later, promulgating a "Cultural Revolution" which included the formation of a group called the Red Guards whose mission seemed to be the stamping out of culture and education. Professors, intellectuals and learned people in general were targeted, abused, humiliated, and worse.
It was not until 1981, some five years after Mao's death that the powers that be concluded that the Cultural Revolution was "responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People's Republic."
For what this abbreviated little history lesson has to do with Governor Scott Walker, please look below the fold.
One would think that Scott Walker and Communism, Chinese style, would have little in common. When Mao Zedong died, Scott was probably still trying to kick out the bars of his crib. But it would seem that Scott, in spite of his lack of formal education, somehow picked up some of the Chinese leader's tricks, particularly when it came to conscious efforts to vilify and marginalize higher education. At this point in his career, he has yet to organize and unleash his version of the Red Guards, but as President of the United States he could arrange to have the CIA hook up with the Israeli Mossad (with Benjy's tacit agreement, of course) and quietly assassinate the professors and intellectuals---most of whom just might be Democrats (what a coincidence). Remember Spiro Agnew's dismissive reference to “effete intellectuals”? I guess he and Nixon just didn't have enough time to get that far, what with both of them resigning in shame, but with Walker in the White House, watch out.