After republishing Yuri Bezmenov’s videos, I decided to see if there were more. I found another that expands on destablization.
Disclaimer: Conjecture follows
What sticks out for me is how very well this all compares to what is happening now. There have been outside influences “inserted” into our society. Whether it is Move On, Think Regress, organized labor, the organizations formerly known as ACORN, Common Cause, ACLU, SPLC, and so on, all are designed to disrupt and destroy our Republic. These organizations are causing disorder, and are simply making our free society increasingly impossible to function. Any of the organizations might create, invent, or otherwise exploit class differences, attack our culture and values, smear people that resist or expose them, cause businesses, systems, or communities to fail…the list goes on and on. And then, as Bezmenov points out, the accumulated damage caused by these efforts brings the nation to crisis. We are rapidly approaching that point.
Additionally, our government is actively pursuing these same ends. From the Department of Education, to the EPA, our own government is engaging in endless “Cloward-Piven” strategies. While, on the surface, they are trying to “nudge” us into what they have deemed to be the “correct” way to live, can we also say they these strategies are also pushing us into crisis? And if it is crisis that they seek, is not more power the end-goal? Is not a result that more and more people are now dependent on government? As the video points out, how many people are asking for more government to “solve” the problems that government caused in the fist place?
Where the video does show it’s age is in the idea of “sleepers.” Obviously, since the Soviet Union is no more, there are no more sleepers. However, there is no longer a need for these, as the Marxists/fascists/”progressives” operate in the open, and are self perpetuating. From many public school teachers, to the Marxist professor, to the talking heads on MSNBC, to a host of actors, producers, pundits, and community organizers, there results a massive propaganda/indoctrination machine for producing more useful idiots. And, the beauty of it is that the useful idiots are blissfully unaware that they are being used. Unfortunately for them, as Bezmenov points out, they will never catch on until they’re being put up against a wall, if they even earn the courtesy of that.
I was feeling conspiratorial tonight. Drop a comment and point out any flaws that you find in my thinking here.
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Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
I’ve said it a few times that most people on the Left have very little idea they’re being used. The Wisconsin college kid protesters and their union hack buddies are by and large clueless as to what they want out of government.
I’d say the percentage of leftists who actually understand the progressive end-game is very small, maybe 5% at the most. The rest? Useful idiots, with an emphasis on idiots.
I agree. There are people “at the top,” that know what they are doing. The others are useful idiots, and they are in for such a surprise.
It is amazing how relevant that video still is today. There is no doubt that what the leftists in this country crave more than anything else is power.
And too many people who vote for them do so without even realizing that what these people stand for is the opposite of the intent of the constitution. They want to grow government to regulate every aspect of our lives, while the constitution was written to limit their ability to do so.
It blew me away with how current it is. I think that lecture is from 1983-nearly 30 years ago. When you look at education, how would many of them know what the Constitution means? It all combines in the end.
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The problem is they have bought into this crap and don’t see themselves as useful idiots even though they meet the definition of the term. Additionally they really don’t know the history of communism so really not only are they ignorant of our founders and liberty, they are ignorant of the communist party. Nice…
In everything you say, they are reacting as programmed. They cannot process reality, so they will miss everything-until it is too late.
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