When Biden’s campaign signs began to appear in yards in SO-OR, Susan would ask what the three red bars meant in the spelling of his name. At first, I thought it was a graphic artist’s use of a stylized writing of the letter ‘E’. Cute. Eye-catching. OK.
But then I began to think about some of my readings about Chairman Mao and the creation of the PRC in 1949. The color red is very significant in the Chinese culture indicating: happiness, protection and good fortune. Thus Mao would select red as a color for a thought or movement which he wanted the Chinese people to coalesce behind and support with vigor. So it is only appropriate to assume that the Biden campaign would use the three banners in red to subliminally give us a glimpse into his vision of the future of America.
“Three Red Banners” were used as an ideological slogan in the late 1950s by Chairman Mao by which he called the Chinese people to build a socialist state. The “Three Red Banners” were also called the “Three Red Flags,” considered as a theme for socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people’s communes.
After the first Five-Year Plan, the PRC continued its socialist construction by introducing the “Three Red Banners Movement”. The Chinese people were directed to work hard, strive, aim high and build socialism with greater and better economic results. By the end of 1958, nearly all Chinese peasants had been organized into communes averaging 5000 households. All privately owned property was contributed to the communes. The people were not allowed to cook their own meals and ate in communal dining halls. The “Great Leap Forward”, beginning in 1958, was a campaign to modernize China using their huge labor resources for agricultural and industrial projects. The ‘Leap’ had the opposite effect, resulting in economic destruction and tens of millions of deaths due to famine. It had to be abandoned. Membership in communes was gradually reduced beginning in the early ’60s, with some private property ownership and enterprise being allowed.
So now you will understand the predictable future under Joe Biden as we are clearly informed by his campaign art.