[Danmctree]

Yes the current period is reminiscent of the Mao period in more than one way. You've got blind loyalty and optimism by the followers, unwillingness to listen to critism, anti-intellectualism, attempts to purge aspects of culture and dissappearing disliked people to faraway prisons.

It's not gone nearly as far as in that period, but we ought to be careful not to get closer. When information countering government policy is suppressed, the mistakes keep growing bigger until the consequences become so grave they can no longer be ignored.