"It gives us a very special, secret
pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really
happening to them." When he said this, Hitler could have been
speaking about America today. The "secret" in Nazi Germany
and democratic America is that minds were and are getting washed with
propaganda from government and "official" channels of information and
news. By mid-century, the American press was virtually a branch of
government, and it was a secret only to uninformed citizens that the public was
being hoodwinked.
American labor organizer and former general secretary of the
Communist Party USA, William Z. Foster, spelled out the plan for America in
1932:
The proletarian revolution in the United States will at
once make a devastating slash into this maze of hypocrisy and intellectual
rubbish. Not less than in the Soviet Union, it will usher in a
profound cultural revolution[.] ... [Education] will be revolutionized, being
cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The
students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism,
internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist
society. Present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by
a scientific pedagogy.
Was this just a political rant, like that proliferating throughout
Europe and America after World War I? Or was it the "writing on
the wall" by a vanguard of dedicated enemies of America? By
mid-century, the mission of Marxist activists to transform America into a
Soviet-style collective was considered by many in the mainstream "a thing
of the past" and all but forgotten. When war broke out in
Vietnam in the 1960s, however, and violent demonstrations on college campuses
and riots erupted across America, older Americans suspected that the Marxist
movement had been relegated to the dustbin of history too
soon. Student confrontations with police became daily news, blood
was spilled, buildings were blown up, in brutal waves of protest against
"the Establishment." Accused of crimes against humanity,
"the Establishment" was summarily convicted and sentenced to
"justice" according to Marxist rules. In their execution
of "justice," the younger rebels practiced violence while their
seniors engaged in planning and subversion.
Postwar activists, funded by agents in and out of government, had
geared up to the wholesale trashing of Western culture, in preparation for the
communist takeover planned early in the 20th century. Marxists had
already begun to inject their poison ideology
in public schools by the start of World War II in a program of education called
"Progressive," designed to prepare the young for a collectivist
society. How could such a trick be pulled off in a democratic
country? Democracy, according to John Dewey, the "father of
Progressive Education," is a tool, not a form of
government. That's how. A twist of words converted the
will of the people into the will of the State!
By the time of the 1960s uprisings, it was clear to all but the
blind that America was under attack from within. Where were the news
media reports of subversion? Why was the public kept from knowing,
for example, that the Soviet Union provided $1 billion to the U.S. anti-war
movement (AKA peace movement)?
I was aware of the deadly mixture of truth and falsehood being fed
the public in the news, on campus, in the school room, in church – distortions
of truth dressed in noble language that concealed the intent of political
rebels "to demolish beyond hope of repair the engine of Western
metaphysics" – to use the words of J. Hillis Miller, an outspoken
academician of the political left.
The Vietnam War was fuel for the social firestorm breaking out
across America in the 1960s, staged and started by rebels and dissenters of
every stripe. The Vietnam War – let it be clear – was an excuse, not
a cause for the violence on this side of the Pacific. Where were the
brigades of concerned citizens to quell the skirmishes and fight the battles? –
where the groundswell of voices drowning the political drivel in the press, on
TV, on college campuses? In a country where part of a soldier's oath
is to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic" – for which they were
sent to all corners of the world – such "oversight" of internal warfare
amounted to treachery!
Regardless of congressional action like that of Senator Joseph
McCarthy to identify communists in an effort to quash plots against the
government, and despite the abundance of anti-communist commentary and calls to
action from books, pamphlets, periodicals, talk programs, and church leaders, no
effective measures were put in place by the government to counter the threat to
the American way of life. And instead of sounding an alarm to alert
the public that their way of life was being threatened, the mainstream news
media continued to justify and support the 1960s social revolution and its
culture-bashing aftermath.
By the 1980s, an entire new generation was
disoriented. School and media had turned young minds toward an
ideology at odds with America's founding principles and
values. Americans progressively lost their moral bearings and their
identity as Americans. Marxist activists and other crusaders for a
collectivist nation had by now taken positions of leadership in academia,
government, and church. Public schools were beginning to pit students
against their parents and filling their heads with ideas calculated to
undermine the core values of their country and heritage.
Americans who got all their news from the mainstream press or TV
were unaware that a culture war had broken out across the country. Mainstream
media reporters, allegedly on the side of truth, were either ignorant or
complicit. Reporting the truth, never safe, was more than ever a
sure way of getting fired. If you, as an honest writer or editor,
didn't like what was going on, you could join the ranks of publications and
organizations that were blacklisted or struggling to get the word out.
As in "the invasion of the body-snatchers," America
changed from a relatively free and happy land to a fretful and contentious
one. The atmosphere throughout the land soured, with a slew of
legally backed prescriptions for thought, speech, and behavior, facetiously
dubbed "political correctness" – rules that pit oppressor class
against victim class (a Marxist trick to divide and control people). Most
damaging was the fact that these "politically correct" instructions
were being fed to schoolchildren and reinforced in the mainstream media by
groups and agencies that were not elected by or represented the people.
The left's brainwashing of American minds was accompanied by a
progressive deterioration of morality, due in great measure to the failure of
religious leaders to publicly condemn those in the public eye who acted
amorally or immorally. "Anything goes" hoaxes against the
mind (such as the so-called "sexual revolution") to detach the mind
from the heart weakened the moral sense and the mental acuity of mainstream
Americans. It also weakened the initiative and enterprising spirit
that once formed the character of American society.
All the foregoing said, it must be everyone's hope and prayer that
the long journey back to political and social sanity be conducted with honesty
and love for one another.
Anthony J. DeBlasi is a Korean War veteran and lifelong
defender of Western culture.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_americans_got_hoodwinked.html
