multiparty system, general election, independent judiciaries and nationalized armies. all these things, according to document number 9, are morality throats communist rule and you know they are right. the principles and institutions under gird america are morality threats to communist rule and to the rule of tyranny everywhere. they have always understood this sometimes better than we have. but this is also a list of threats to something else. it s a list of threats to the rule of our own elites. our own corrupt titans, our own complacent political class. are you awake? do you see how the threat at home and the threat abroad are one in the same? common enemies make common cause and they depend on our divisions to rule. prescriptions at the end of document number 9 call for more fanatical control by the party over life and discourse but then there is this: we, in the communist party of china, must reinforce our management of all