"...we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace," he said. "To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order."
In his acceptance speech, Cronkite added, "Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."
This has been in the works a long time. We just never really believed it could happen.
First they make people stupid. Then they make them complacent. Finally they skewer them and consume them.
Thanks for the ping, Dr E.
Cronkite, that old seditious liberal, must have nearly cheered when he read the 45 Communist goals published in the 1963 Congressional Record. He certainly did his part to take us there. And, he likely is sitting right where he wanted to be as a result of the darkness he loved.
I was aware that he was one of the useful idiots, which makes the generation of our poor parents still left gasp in shock when you tell them you’re not sad they’re gone.