It has been several days now since the shooting of Charlie Kirk. This event has had a deep, profound impact — leaving me and others with a sullen, disparaging feeling about what the future holds for our country. I wasn’t necessarily a big fan of Kirk. In fact, through the years I began to see him as someone who was just upholding the official party line. Not that it is a bad thing to do so. I will say he played a tremendous role in showing the younger generations the stark contrasts between the leftwing and rightwing worldviews. Something no doubt, that many would argue was the reason he was killed. What died when Kirk was shot wasn’t just a man, it was a symbol of what Americans strive for. A nation where robust debate and the free exchange of ideas is what drives social change — not political violence. Over the years we have watched the hard political left push the most absurd and hateful narratives on the public. In an attempt to give it the air of officialdom, this narrative dominated the mainstream media, was taught in the universities and public schools, and is even subtlety embedded in the storylines of Hollywood movies and major television programming. The narrative is that America is a racist nation whose historical roots are saturated with white supremacist ideology, and the institutions upon which she functions, are designed to perpetuate this supremacy by keeping minorities destitute. We are bigoted, and the only perspective that matters is that of the white man. We all know that is garbage, however, we let it be because we believe in the ideals of free speech and open debate. A common phrase parroted by conservatives is “I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight for your right to say it.” Most of us never imagined how much of an impact these teachings would have on young, impressionable minds. Still, with this being said, I can’t help but feel there is something darker cultivating in the whirlwinds. Many people would argue that the left’s solidification of their narrative is, or was intended to be, used as a justification for violence against us. I would agree with that sentiment. I have written it several times myself while discussing things like Critical Race Theory. Is it possible that something else is going on? Is there something that in our anger and desperation we are failing to see? Something that perhaps, is leading us down a darker path than we can possibly imagine.
Ideological Subversion: To change the perception of reality to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one can come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their communities, and their country. (Yuri Bezmenov)
I think most people have probably heard of Yuri Bezmenov, and his concepts of ideological subversion. Surely if you have been following my writings you have seen my thoughts and articles on this topic, or perhaps you read his book A Love Letter to America. There is also a YouTube video of Bezmenov discussing this topic. Who is Yuri Bezmenov? What is ideological subversion? Bezmenov claims to be a former KGB agent who defected to America, and ideological subversion is a process of undermining a nation’s values, morals and principles in an attempt to transform the target country to communism. There are four steps — demoralization, destabilization, crisis and finally, normalization. In some ways, each of these steps can be seen taking place whenever there is a major crisis like a massive school shooting, or riots, or economic recessions. There is definitely an attempt to demoralize gun owners, for example, whenever a shooting occurs. On a larger scale, the racism issue is being used to demoralize generations of Americans. They have literally been trained to hate their country. I have witnessed this myself. While I have told this story often, it bears repeating in light of what we are witnessing. As a student in a social work program at Northeastern State University, in Broken Arrow Oklahoma — of all places — the professors tried to tell me I wasn’t fit for the program due to my ideological opposition to social justice and white privilege. I watched in awe as my classmates were, for a lack of a better term, forced to stand in front of the class and admit they didn’t realize how racist and privileged they were until studying white privilege. The more I studied this topic, the more I learned that the methodologies being employed were strikingly similar to the methods used by the Chinese communists during Mao’s Great Leap Forward. I think it is pretty evident what the next phases mean. Destabilization and crisis are pretty self-explanatory. What does normalization mean? It means the final phase of instituting the sought after communist style government. The total control of society. The boot on the neck, if you will. Are we close to that stage? How would it actually come about?
Before I go on, I need you to open your minds and understand that what I am saying is mostly speculation based not only on what Bezmenov himself says, but what I am seeing in the social media sphere. It is very eerie, to say the least. What is happening? Social media is being flooded with videos and memes of leftists celebrating Kirk’s death. They appear to be ecstatic, as they believe in the bottom of their hearts that his murder was justified because he was a homophobic, transphobic racist who pushed extreme rightwing views — which are of course referred to as fascist these days — on the nation’s youth. In short, the left is accusing him, along with the rest of the right, of exactly what they are doing. What makes it even worse is the people making these videos are mostly transgender — presenting themselves in a way that will surely infuriate viewers. It is, in a word, sick. It is like they are intentionally poking our most sensitive spots to cause as much discontent and pain as they can. But why? What if they are being used as the useful idiots of the left? Bezmenov (not me) says that the normalization phase would include eliminating the radical leftists first. Those people who are hopelessly attached to the philosophies of Marx, and believe that in the end, a utopian paradise would arise, and they would share in the seats of power because of their willing participation in bringing it about. Once they realize that total equality means equality of dirt and squalor, they would surely rebel. Therefore, they would be used to set the example of what happens should a rebellion occur. This is what he says.
Passions are being inflamed on the right. The American conservatives have had about as much as they can take of being called a racist, a bigot, a transphobe, or whatever other derogatory term the left can come up with. They are tired of seeing men pretending to be woman and making videos challenging anyone to stop them from using the women’s restroom. Peaceful, law-abiding Americans are tired of being blamed for mass shootings committed by deranged madmen who have no value for human life simply because they own a gun. Finally, they are fed up with being accused of being anti-woman because they don’t support abortion on demand. The death of Charlie Kirk certainly has them on edge. Conservatives need to slow their anger and think about something. These so-called radical leftists are victims of a very sophisticated method of indoctrination. Read the article I linked above on Critical Race theory and Coercive Persuasion carefully. They know what they are doing as they have been doing it for decades. The unfortunate reality is that no amount of truth will change these people’s opinions, but it isn’t their fault. We sat back and let it happen. We thought it would never happen here. At best, we thought that the ideas supporting freedom and personal responsibility would be seen as the better alternative. We were wrong. Now we are sitting on a powder keg, and the thing is about to blow. If there is any truth to what Bezmenov said, then we must consider the possibility that the radical leftists are being used to incite the crisis stage, which will inevitably bring about the normalization phase. If we let our anger and frustrations get the best of us, we will be aiding in that agenda. Do you seriously think we will have a romanticized civil war with the right defeating the left, without the end result being more government control and less freedom? That will never happen. If this conflict were to occur it would surely usher in the end of American sovereignty as we know it. Martial law would be declared, and guns would be confiscated. The boots on our neck would be normalized.
Don’t be led by your passions. Don’t get wrapped up in the collective emotion of the situation. We are dangerously close to the point where one third of the country would take out the other one third, while the remaining one third sits back and watches. Take it to heart my friends.
If you enjoyed this article consider reading my books as well.
A Critical Look at CRT in Education, Research and Social Policy, available in paperback.
And Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion.
