American Ideals Are Being Destroyed

by

       George Sontag

      How do you destroy a country with a powerful economy, a strong military, and a moral and decent people? It has to be a long, slow process that moves subtly on many simultaneous fronts. If you become too bold, too fast, people will catch onto what you’re doing and even many of your biggest supporters will be forced to distance themselves from you.

      If you want to change a people for the worse, you have to start by undermining their values. This happens by slowly, yet surely taking over their institutions. The first thing you would do is take control of the education system and teach children that they are living in an evil country. Don’t teach them the nuances of the Constitution; teach them the flaws of the men who made it. An expert on this was a Soviet defector, the late Yuri Bezmenov. He stated that it takes only 15-20 years to educate one generation of children. Through infiltration and propaganda, the "outlook, ideology, and personality" of these children is shaped. Mind control also involves what we now would call the "dumbing down" of our children. The belief is that students be taught anything but serious skills like reading, writing, mathematics, or science. In colleges, particularly liberal arts schools, the trend has been to offer increasing numbers of non-essential elective courses that have little to do with "higher education." Bezmenov joked about the proverbial basket weaving major...again, teach them anything, but don't teach them how to think and reason. Mediocrity is necessary for destruction.

      Next you would turn the media into a propaganda arm of the progressive mindset, where objective truth no longer matters. Bezmenov explained that when people are programmed by repetition, they are unable to assess true information. Because their "perception of reality" has been altered, and their minds confused, they wouldn't believe facts even if presented with them.

      After that, control Hollywood and the music industry and you can portray duty, honor and character as old concepts that no longer matter. You can also paint the most successful Americans as bad guys, the police as mind-numbed robots and decent Christians as hypocrites who want to ruin everyone’s good time. More importantly, once you have actors and musicians on your side, there is practically no limit to the number of ways you can shape the culture. You can promote drug use and promiscuous sex. You can encourage men to feminize and women to be more masculine. Most importantly, you can portray your opponents who want to save what’s great about America as desperately racist.

         This reinforces the messages young Americans, who care desperately about being popular, are getting from their schools. Once you control Hollywood, music and the schools, you have a direct pipeline to the brains of the young Americans who will one day run the country. So, what do you teach them? It would be best if you could entirely get away from teaching them reading, writing, arithmetic and history.

      Once this is accomplished on the populace, then you can start making moves in the political sector. The first is to promote judges who believe in a “living Constitution,” which is functionally no different than not having a Constitution at all. This allows arrogant judges to override the people in order to put historically failed policies into action, but more importantly, it allows the unlimited expansion of government. The bigger government becomes, the less capable it seems of doing anything well despite its swelling cost. Once you have a government that’s almost universally considered to be incompetent despite spending so much money that it jeopardizes your nation’s future, your nation is on the road to ruin.

      The key to keeping it on that road is capturing a political party that consistently appeals to people’s worst natures. You need a party committed to turning black Americans against white, women against men, gays against straights. You need a party committed to rewarding poverty, bringing in unlimited numbers of poor, uneducated immigrants and defending the unions that make America’s public school system mediocre.

      The thing that ties all of this together is a corrupt media that can largely control what news the population sees and focuses on. A media that is willing to lie in order to defame those trying to save a nation is useful, but not even necessary. All that really needs to be done is to focus the people on trivia, celebrities and the flaws of those who mean well while the great crimes of the most corrupt are ignored or treated as trivial. When the people are obsessed with minutiae while the country is coming apart at the seams, the media has done their job well.

      Once the system becomes self-sustaining as young Americans are no longer taught what made their nation successful, become obsessed with their feelings, come to believe that character doesn’t matter and buy into the destructive notions they see and hear every day on the big screen, on radio and in the papers, the disease that afflicts America will become so far advanced that it may never be cured.

      So, has our country been lost? Recent news would suggest that many people believe it has. A recent study found that 83% of Americans are very stressed over the future of the country, and 72% believe this is the lowest point in the country’s history that they’ve witnessed. A survey found that people are the unhappiest we’ve been in 50 years. Just 14% of people say they are “very happy.” The survey further found that just 4 in 10 expect their children to have a better standard of living than they have, the lowest percentage since the question was first asked in 1994.

       What’s happening now is a full-scale Progressive attack on all the principles underlying the freedoms so many have enjoyed. The demands of relatively small minority interests trample the rights of wide majorities, frustrating millions whose forebears built this nation and made it work with broadly accepted rules of moral and ethical conduct. According to the Pew Research Center, 21% of Americans believe other countries are “better than the United States.” But here's the truly disturbing part: Among those between the ages of 18 and 29, the figure jumps to 36%. Most ominously, a third of voters think a civil war is “likely” sometime in the next five years.

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