People taken for fools can be forgiven. Those leading cannot. A time comes when misdirection and emotionalism get dangerous. We are there. Boiled down to basics, the “No Kings” Movement is a well-funded precursor of leftist mob violence. The goal is to delegitimize law, create confusion, push communism, and gain power.
Doubters, those earnest citizens who wish this were not so, may say “Is it really that bad?” or “Shouldn’t we oppose war, fascism, and bad things?” The answer is, you must unpack the world around you with care, study facts, and know history.
One of the first tenets of ideological warfare – like cheap salesmanship, bad magic, and good jokes – is misdirection, sucking someone in with a simple premise, then leading them in the wrong direction to a wrong conclusion.
This is what the “No Kings” leadership does, Marxism 101, using resentments and class warfare to rope people in, get buy-in for something obvious, that we oppose racism, fascism, unjust wars, and government abuse, then tag and push.
Sadly, those who do not think fast or for themselves bite. They accept the premise, then false conclusions, indulging an invitation to vent frustrations – personal, economic, social, and political – trading reason, logic, and fact for emotion.
Part of the multi-million-dollar “No Kings” propaganda campaign, a silly name for neo-communism that (objectively) falls short of “Black Lives Matter,” Maoism, and Bolshevism, is to rile people up, create froth, name it activism, give alienated, unemployed, and unhappy people some purpose, then point them somewhere.
The somewhere could be anywhere, which is why leftism and allegiance to such “movements” are dangerous. The initial stage is naming victims and villains, next sympathy for victims, hatred of villains, and then amplifying emotions to a fever pitch.
This is what leftist or “progressive” promoters of violence did in the 1960s, producing billions in property damage, surging terror, three high-level assassinations, and widespread social and political unrest.
In 1960s America, as today, the goal was undermining law enforcement, creating fear, raising doubt about history, the Constitution, and the Republic, pushing communism (resentment, oppression, centralized power) through “revolution.”
The former Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, Laos, Venezuela, and other death-dealing Communist governments are a lesson enough in communist “utopia.” The lesson, however, is too quickly forgotten. We are there again today.
On the facts, what exactly is this “No Kings” thing? A recent dive into records showed it is a well-funded push for neo-communism. After last weekend’s antics in dozens of cities, here is what came out.
A Fox Digital investigation looked at the data and found: “A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide ‘No Kings’ protest … including communist groups who are using the day to call for a revolution…” behind them “Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros …” and “radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an … avowed communist living in China.”
The list of communist groups behind “No Kings” includes “a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and Code Pink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.”
If that were not enough, city-centered groups now bleed to rural states, Montana to Maine, seeding communist propaganda and pulling unsuspecting citizens –people seeking purpose – into their carefully crafted cult of resentment.
The anti-American “Freedom Road Socialist Organization,” which “led aggressive demonstrations targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations” and favoring Hamas, said: “People everywhere are becoming increasingly hostile to the Trump agenda… sympathetic to revolution. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines, it’s the time to go out and join the people, get our revolutionary message in front of them … the people’s movements.”
“The Maine chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, working with activists connected to Democratic Socialists of America and the ANSWER Coalition, called on supporters to join … a Unified Leftist Contingent” against “imperialism, capitalism and state violence…These systems don’t fall without pressure…”
All of this is part of the “No Kings” drive for Singham’s Maoism in America, a “People’s War” that will “radicalize them from within.” With this group are others like “Code Pink,” which “has supported Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro, the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, and President Xi Jinping.”
If all of this sounds crazy, over the top, utterly anti-American, it is. Reasonable people need to wake up. People taken for fools can be forgiven, but misdirection and emotionalism can get dangerous. And sadly, we are there.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!
Take a good look at this 13 minute video.
Put this in your search engine:
(KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America)
This interview came out in the 1980’s
It methodically lays out the plan how to de-stabilize a nation.
The Left has known for many many years how to play the long game.
Democrats (aka Socialist/Comunists) are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing.
Our side really needs to grow a set of brass canones, and fast. Some Republicans, like John Thune, are worthless.
If we lose the midterms, we possibly lose our chance to grab the brass ring and right the ship.
Make no mistake folks, the deck is stacked.
Semper Vigilans
How can we expect a group of people (idiots) who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman to know the difference between a king and a president?
For those who are self seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. Romans 2:8
RBC, excellent article of how the Left and its allies are misleading the people away from freedom and the truth by using the same tactics that socialist/communist organization. Goes basically with what Joseph Goebbels of Nazi Germany used — Tell a lie long enough and the people will believe it (paraphrase). The citizens of our nation really do need to wake up and recognize the false rhetoric of the enemy.
It is largely the SAME group of idiots from George Floyd, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, Move-On every time with a few “useful idiots” thrown in for good measure. Plus, the [fake] media always overinflates the number of protestors to push their Marxist agenda! I’d say Fidel Castro, Joe Stalin, and Mao lived and acted a lot more like kings than ANY president, including the Senile One!
Gratitude to Robert B.Charles for the research he put into this article. Reading this article is like putting pieces together found at an archeological site – it presents a sensible pattern of what some place meant long ago .And that can apply to political movements too.. For example, the hundreds of groups participating in in this No Kings propaganda. Thinking in terms of historical research is something always good to do .It can lead to all manner of new ideas by uncovering old ideas . Visiting Valley Forge National Historical Park once back in the early 1970’s I took a close look at Valley Creek that runs through the park and is a tributary of the Schuylkill River..I put my hand in the creek a few times to get a better look at the small stones at the bottom of the creek and I in one handful came up with what appeared to be a triangle or wedge shaped stone about two inches in length and had what looked like flint mixed with the stone. As soon as I got back home to Philadelphia later that day I struck the curious looking stone at an angle against an iron shovel and it sparked sure enough.! So, I reckon I found a flint for a flintlock rifle – a genuine part of the history of Valley Forge.Just mentioned this experience to show how historical research can lead to unexpected as well as important discoveries.
With all the information tying George Soros to these hate groups, why doesn’t the FBI and DOJ charge him and his ilk with fomenting a revolution and strip him of his citizenship and boot him out of the country? Why has he remained here for so long and allowed to cause so much dissension?
One should also read “The Communist Goals” published in 1963. Copies are available through the Library of Congress. A quick summary: destroy the family unit; start a movement for the environment, infilitrate our schools, and equally important, our political parties — one of which has already been overtaken and the other on its way. Repentance and prayer can be our only hope. Perhaps, God will have mercy on us and help clean out the terrorists and treasonists from our nation. We need His intervention or else there is no hope. On the other hand, it could be the end and, consequently, usher in the return of our Lord and Savior. Blessed be the Resurrection of Adonai Yeshua! Pray, for America, true patriots!
No Kings unless they worship at the altar of Marxism
Whenever I read articles like this, I expect them to be accompanied by pictures of sloppily dressed obese women with rainbow dyed hair screaming the “F” word. Oh, and men who make me think, “Don’t they work for a living or are they on the government dole?” I rue the day they closed the mental institutions.
Sort of looks like a bunch of “Boomers” reliving their rebellious childhoods. “Hell No–We won’t go!” No, wait a second. That was then. Now can’t be just “No Kings” can it? Come on you overaged Hippies, you can do better than that.
Thank you for writing this article. I know these “No Kings” rallies are everything you said they are in your article. As you know, it is nearly impossible to convince idealogues of the facts. Many of my friends and I experience friends, family and others over talking us to shut up any facts we present. I live in Minnesota. So it is particularly frustrating here because there are so many far-left people in this State. It is worse than ever before.
“Those who do not think fast or for themselves” as Mr. Charles states as the ones easily pulled into these leftist movements have been prepared for such a time. How? Our public education system.
The generation of college graduates of the 60s until today were/are brainwashed and indoctrinated by their professors and no longer taught to be rational thinkers but to accept/believe what they are told by those ‘respected’ highly-educated professors.
Those graduates, along with future ones, became teachers in K-12 and yes today’s professors who are still indoctrinating students, more than ever before.
Inadvertenly ran into a “No kings protest” in my small community of about 100,000. There were about 3 to 4000 people that showed up on our main street with very professionally printed signs, (some that said, not paid to protest and some that said they were homemade). They all looked the same and all were on posterboard and cut to fit their sticks to carry and all in about the same size that fit perfectly in trunk of their cars. No homemade printing with markers or on cardboard. They pulled up into the parking lot we were trying to find space to go to lunch at a local resaurant, but none available because of the influx of noisy people playing at going to a “party”!
I was personally upset as it was a birthday gift for the lunch out with family. Looked at the numbers and was disappointed, as I never wanted or intended to attend such a demonstration as for or against.
Thinking back on the crowd, it took me awhile to put into perspective that this amount of people was only a miniority showing of our community. The 3,000 to 4,000 attendees out of 100,000 population; is about that 97% or 96% did not agree with their protest. But the MSM reports will be just backwards, they will report how many attended not the percentage of the population their attendance represented!
Sometimes we need thought to put some activities into the proper category of what is actual and not what we are being led to believe!
Can any of these protesters tell me the last king who had any sort of power??? They really should read a history book every now and again.
How do we get our DC government to fight these powerful people and their organizations? Why aren’t they doing so? Why don’t they spend time and money on that instead of still talking about the Russian Hoax??? Forget about what has passed and look ahead to save our country!! Write to your Republican reps in Congress!! Someone has to get these people to start fighting for our lives…including their own!!
This whole movement is just invidious. There was a demonstration last weekend in a little time where I grew up in, in upstate NY. They are reaching out to everybody, not just those in big cities. Those in congress who support this-they need to be investigated. Follow the money on who gave how much and to who. Then investigate them for treason.
Isn’t it a federal offence to deface an American flag like the useful idiot in the picture above?
These protesters are bunch of idiots !
The Democratic Party and their allies continue to wage war against America and the true American people! The Democrats are the leading force against our country and we must fight to stop them from continuing to destroy our country! God will strike them down!
So many Republican conservatives have become complacent, oblivious and blind to the dangers that are quickly rising in America. STOP voting RINO into office! VOTE every election offered because every election is important. STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY!!! or we are going to lose it. Sad.
Leftist NGOs fund NO Kings
With all the information tying George Soros to these hate groups, why doesn’t the FBI and DOJ charge him with fomenting a revolution and strip him of his citizenship and boot him out of the country? !!
This article says, we are to “study facts and know history”…..and that’s exactly is what is NOT being done by our citizenry. Too many people with blank minds and a head full of lies who are now being led down that garden path to the destruction of our Republic.
My suggestion is that the funding behind all these supposed legitimate protests be cut off. Kill their financial support and you kill the movement. We know who is behind it, even by name, but do nothing to stop the effort. It’s time to starve this movement by drying up the funds (much of which comes in from outside our country.) So, what does our government do, knowing all of this……you know…..NOTHING!
As always, Robert Charles is spot on!!
Why would Soros with all his money support left wing or communist groups, Since he is of HUNGARIAN decent? He made his money in a capitalist manner. I thought he was a force for democracy? A communist I don’t think so maybe a socialist.
How can you fight this ignorance when the fake news media promote No King
people better wake up china is behind most of theses
Thank you. I will need to reread and incorporate into my understanding!