They deserve no sympathy, it was sheer madness, and it is. > As ideas go it isn't an obvious mis-step in the class as, say, Communist economic policies. No, i

They deserve no sympathy, it was sheer madness, and it is. > As ideas go it isn't an obvious mis-step in the class as, say, Communist economic policies. No, it's an exemplary case of completely bonker policies in rank with "4 pests" campaign. Sadly, stuff like that is very much intentional, and are signature of Maoesque political thought: You intentionally make populace outraged over something very obvious, and then keep obsessing over it for no reason making people think it's a big thing, when it isn't. When people people have something more close, personal, and painful to be outraged about, it shifts people's attention from an even more obvious fact of complete governance failure, and communist occupation of the country.