Posted on 06/14/2021 3:55:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America is now at a point where its free market system, constitutional republic, Judeo-Christian values, and national sovereignty are seriously threatened.
In 1984, former KGB officer Yuri Bezmenov, who defected to the West in the 1970s, alerted Americans to the methods the Soviet secret service was using to subvert our political system. The aim of the agency, he said, was gradual "ideological subversion" or "psychological warfare."
Using ample video footage of the late Bezmenov, Brainwashed America — the latest documentary from filmmaker, radio host, and author Brannon Howse — exposes how dangerously far this process of undermining American culture has advanced. Howse's conclusions are based on thirty years of study of the history, utilization, and advancement of brainwashing in America. He defines brainwashing as "a method that manipulates and modifies a person's emotions, attitudes, and beliefs" and indoctrination as a subtle, pedagogic process "to induce someone to give up basic political, social, and religious beliefs and attitudes, and to accept contrasting regimented ideas."
In the mid-1980s, the former spy had delineated the phases of the Soviet operation in America: demoralization, destabilization, chaos, and normalization (when communism takes hold). This came to be called Bezmenov's "Soviet subversion model." As early as 1984, he had claimed that the process of demoralization — turning youths against traditional American values — was complete and that destabilization was well under way to subvert the economy, foreign relations, and defense. He had warned that Americans may believe it's peacetime, but they are really "in a state of undeclared war against the basic principles and the foundations of this system."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
2) encouraging the questioning of values, convictions, and the American worldview
3) presenting a revisionist history that portrays the free market system as oppressive
4) propagating moral relativity to cloud the distinction between right and wrong
5) extolling consensus and collectivism while declaring individualism dangerous
6) focusing on emotions over facts, reason, and context
7) fostering anxiety, confusion, social turbulence
8) concealing the ultimate agenda
9) using trusted individuals and institutions to enhance credibility
10) using informants to zero in on those who don't comply
11) rewarding compliance and punishing dissent
12) winning public trust by manufacturing chaos to lay the groundwork for a benevolent-seeming rescue.
Mr. Bezmenov was correct although he was a bit off on his timeline. In the 1980’s faculty was spouting B.S. and students would just tell them what they wanted to hear just to get through the class. However a woman who works as an academic advisor for a university in a very conservative state has said that around the mid-1990’s students changed and became very entitled, obsessed with fairness and social justice.
Very worthwhile read.
Bkmk
Ping to a good article.
Perhaps this will wake up the sleepers, but it’s old news for the informed. It’s all well and good, but the hard question is the one President Trump presented before the determined, freedom loving Polish people in Warsaw, Poland - “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? ... Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?” President Donald J. Trump - July 6, 2017
PING!
Subversion is a gradual and subtle process of changing thought and logic, then changing attitude, and then ultimately changing behavior.
An example of this subtlety is the world of academia, and university where discussion was previously supported and encouraged,
but now, contrary discussion is outright discouraged or denied.
Brainwashing is a coercive and involuntary abrupt change of behavior, without even bothering to change attitude; it is physical, and compels compliance.
An example of this physical change of behavior is most recently demonstrated by compelling compliance
to wear a R-95 face mask by government, industry, or university bureaucrats if you haven't already been *vaxxinated*(sic).
There is no longer any thought of privacy of your personal medical history supposedly defended by privacy laws; your mask is your physical symbol of compliance.
This article explains the tactics and methods of change employed by Socialism/ Communism.
It has become hijab. Demonstrated by Democrats afraid to NOT wear the masks though they have no disease risk due to vaccination or having had it.
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