“If the power of the Left was as you say, we would be under a full-fledged Totalitarian regime now and elections would be pre-determined. There would be no Trump under such a system. We have just passed through a critical period and escaped by the skin of our teeth. Illegal surveillance of private citizens was in full swing through the intelligence agencies. Government was working against politicians as never before. And we only have seen the tip of the ice-berg.”
Yeah, and we passed through a critical period through the skin of our teeth with Ronald Reagan as well. And even with Nixon, we managed to just barely get by until the left decided to do trumped up charges, with the media leading the bandwagon, to basically remove a sitting president without even needing to fire a gun. And one of the people in charge, the so-called “most trusted man in America” Walter Cronkite, even went as far as to advocate for one-world government later on and makes his radical left-wing sympathies all too apparent once he’s off the air (and even when he was on the air, hints at slanting the news to the left was already present). And have you forgotten that Walter Lippman, aka, the father of modern journalism and the guy who founded the so-called school of “objective journalism”, specifically intended to manufacture public consent via the use of stereotypes? That we even managed to drive off the left despite their total control is largely due to the populace’s conservativism and the silent majority, and not at all to do with any particular similarities between parties or the media being conservative (even during the 1920s, much less the 1960s and today, it was far to the left, as were the university systems. Or have you forgotten the Free Speech Movement that was organized by communists and red diaper babies.).
Reagan won landslides, he did not just squeak by. But it was a vote for the personality, not ideology, since his enormous votes did not translate into the Congressional elections.
Nixon’s last election was also a landslide and the Democrats ran an ex-bomber pilot. McGovern may have been many things but was not a traitor. Those days are nothing like now. Obama and Hillary would have been boo’ed off the stage by DEMOCRATS much less the American People.
The Silent Coupe was perpetrated by forces we believed to be on our side: the FBI and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is where the damaging Deep Throat information came from
I also believe the CIA was involved through the revelation that there were tapes (have no proof of this, it is just an opinion). This information was HANDED to the Left.
Walter Lippmann was a columnist and he was not a communist.
He was critical of the Cold War policy of “Containment” not because he underestimated or wanted to increase the danger of the USSR. His critique of “X” proposal was correct in that it took longer than estimated to bring down the Soviet Union, over twice as long as the estimated 10-15 years. He also believed Kennan’s theory would allow the Soviets the strategic advantage while we were playing defense. So they could decide when and where conflict would occur. That appears also to be true.
Cronkite’s love of One World government was not that unusual among idealists. Heck, Wendell Wilkie advocated one world government. Many idealists also believed that nationalism had failed and produced wars and pointed to the first half of the 20th century as evidence.
The AWM’s leaders were primarily concerned about domestic issues and were not pro-Soviet. It was a discredited brand. The organizations were composed of hard-core Leftists, star-struck idealists and Useful Idiots and the Leftists were not that effective or popular. They had to suppress their ideology and concentrate on the popular issues: civil rights and war. There also would never win over the majority of our population and their actions led directly to the election of Nixon. After Chicago the Democrats had no chance, had that not happened Humphrey would have slaughtered Nixon.