The Washington Times published an op-ed which lists conditions, the criteria that, in author L. Todd Wood’s words, for destroying a society. “If I wanted to destroy an enemy society, and had a long-term focus, wanted to do it stealthily, and effectively, to make the society destroy itself and the ability to defend itself, I would do the following:
1. I would destroy the religious ideals that built the country and held it together, allowing it to thrive and be exceptional. In short, I would destroy Christianity in the West.
2. I would destroy the family, the fabric of society. I would tear apart the nuclear family, that produced stable children, future contributors to the nation’s wealth and power. … A society that does not reproduce is a dying society.
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3. I would promote the concept “toxic masculinity” and extremist feminism. What better way to make the society less masculine, less able to field a strong military? …. In short, I would feminize the male population, making it less effective in battle.
4. I would destroy the education system. I would plant Marxist professors throughout the university system, teaching new generations nothing about American history, but filling their heads full of communist propaganda. They would know nothing of Washington, Lincoln, or Jefferson, but of Malcolm X and Lenin.
5. I would divide the races. What better way, what better method of “dividing and conquering,” than to foster a race war, filling minorities’ heads full of lies of police brutality, and developing a culture of hate towards law enforcement?
6. I would corrupt the federal government. I would fill the intelligence and security services with traitors to the nation’s founding. When any political figure arose which threatened my diabolical agenda, I would use these corrupt agencies to target and frame any rising star who loved America, even if he was a duly-elected president of the United States.
7. I would take away the population’s means to defend itself – meaning, I would take away their guns. The fear of an armed population would stop any invasion. I would get rid of this problem.
8. I would destroy self-reliance and ingenuity by making over half of the population dependent on the government, unable to take care of themselves.
9. I would use big-tech to completely remove any viewpoints or ideas that were associated with the “old America.” I would ban them from the internet. Heck, I’d take over the internet. I would work with other tyrannical powers to develop internet censorship to eventually prevent any opposing views to be heard by anyone.
10. I would corrupt the nation’s leadership with money, finding those who would sell out the country for pieces of silver. I’d make sure they were strategically placed in powerful positions. I’d shell out money throughout the legislature to make sure no laws were passed that opposed my agenda.
11. I would promote the disrespect of the nation’s symbols. I would have people kneel during the national anthem, burn the flag, tear down statues of the nation’s history. I would make people hate the very fabric of the nation that gave them such wealth and power.
12. I would find a straw man, a country who is also a malicious adversary to America, though much less powerful, and I would focus all the negative energy and recriminations towards this straw man country. In this manner, the targeted nation would be ignorant of my true intentions.”
He warns, “Everything I have written above is happening right now in front of your eyes.”
It’s hard to disagree with him.
Excellent article. The truth hurts.
Great article and so true. The elites love this model and think they will not be effected by the collapse of civilization. How wrong they are. Look at Rome.
“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you.”
“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
–Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
I agree with some of the articles but some are just far-right talking points.
Not hardly, Jon, not hardly, and I believe all of those points made are now past tense.
Young people have been taught to HATE America, and that is not at all hyperbole.
So you now have a societal schism developing rather rapidly, being spurred on by the most egregious lies from Democrat autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and his executive assistant autocrat Karmela Harris about Roe v. Wade, which egregious lies are being told for no other reason than to provoke violence towards Justices of the Supreme Court and to sow discredit on the Supreme Court as an institution and separate branch of OUR national government, which judicial branch is not supposed to kow-tow or bend the knee to a tyrannical autocrat like Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and to provoke violence towards those who do not believe in abortion, and should not have to, liberty of conscience being guaranteed by OUR Constitution, afterall, the same one that the Democrats and Biden and Harris are trying to undermine with their seditious GREAT BIG LIES.
So how is it that they have managed to so easily suck you in to the vortex of their lies?
Which? Be specific and tell us what about them is wrong, or not happening.
Truly, I would like to engage in a real conversation about what you believe constitutes a far right talking point.
AMEN!
And please, make it more than “Karine Jean-Pierre said it was and that is good enough for me because she speaks with Joe Biden’s voice!”
Give us some tangible substance to support your thesis.
And that stuff is coming at us from straight out of the COMMIE MANIFESTO repackaged as THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM in America, so it is hardly right-wing, so how will you jump that hurdle then, to support whatever points you are going to try to make in the face of insuperable odds?
I hope this is allowed, but if not then go to YouTube and search for “Paul Harvey If I Were the Devil”. I will post the link on another comment in case it gets removed or doesn’t embed.
Mr. Harvey was a famous radio commentariat from WAY long ago. This was one of his commentaries in 1965. It is quite profound and current. Enjoy, or at least understand that is isn’t a recent trend.
I remember Paul Harvey and my goodness, we are talking stuff that goes back to the Romans, so of course none of it is new.
Sun Tzu 2500 years ago would advocate similar measures to take over a rival nation from within, so no bloodshed was required.
When I was young, we were taught about this stuff, which goes back to the 30’s in our modern times, with the proviso that before all of us had departed the globe, we were going to see that right here in the USA.
And lo and behold, but no surprise, at all.
I believe the phrase you want is, “Those who do not study history are damned to repeat it.”
As true as ever.
Good morning, Jay Sherin, and yes, indeed, although being older now, and thinking of the tale of the three pigs, where 2/3’s or 66% of the population, the majority by far, get eaten by the “wolf,” and Pinocchio, where going on one hundred percent of those who get sucked in by Jimmy Lampwick are turned into donkeys, stories we young folks were given to consider the implications and ramifications of in our own lives out in the countryside before televisions and telephones came along to scramble people’s minds, I think there are corollaries such as “those who fail to learn that there is such a thing as history, and that it happens, regardless of what we might think about it, are stupid and in a Darwinian fashion, deserving of whatever fate befalls them,” and it could be a glorious one, as a result of their ignorance, which to them, is bliss.
People hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest, and if they are over eighteen, they own the results, and have to reap whatever harvest it was that they sowed.
It was true yesterday and tomarrow, if it comes, it will be true again.
Sorry for a sort of tangent, but does anyone realize that the place for the foolish men to become donkeys, Pleasure Island, is EXACTLY the name Disney uses to call their place to be an adult at Disney World?
They are plainly ridiculing us donkey wannabe’s with impunity, and it is a true shame.
Keep the comments coming, Jay Sherin, they are interesting to read!
The voters are the ultimate problem.
You are absolutely correct. Trump, for all his efforts and limitations, was sent to drain the swamp. Unfortunately, that is akin to Hercules cleaning the Augean Stables. And Trump is NOT Hercules, except maybe in his mind.
We made the mess by voting “our guy” into office, even when we can plainly see what is the mess called DC (or even Virginia State). Unless we decide to clean house, and keep cleaning if/when the new representatives are beginning to hear the Siren’s song of cronyism, it will be a futile effort.
We are the ones in charge of cleaning up the mess, not a legend in his own mind. And there is a LOT to clean up.
Functional illiteracy means that a person cannot use reading, writing, and calculation skills for his/her own and the community’s development.
Functional illiteracy has considerable negative effects not only on personal development, but also in economic and social terms
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