I don’t know if I was just young and naive, but I always thought that America was founded on honor, integrity, and trust. I believed that they were sacred pillars upon which we should build our lives, our families, our culture, and our nation. One of the most dishonorable things you could do was to lie. And the worst kind of lies were those that were selfishly designed to give you or your group an undeserved advantage over someone else and harm their welfare while enhancing yours.
I thought that honesty, truth, and fair play were somehow molded into the foundational moral structure of America and that this ethical foundation was essential for creating the sense of trust necessary to lubricate the dynamics of a free society.
Today I am very worried that honesty and integrity are being replaced by the belief you should do anything necessary for your side to win. Everywhere I look, I feel that truth is being replaced by propaganda, and honest debates and free speech are being replaced by anger, intimidation, censorship, and lies.
I feel that integrity and trust are dying in America. Worse than that, I believe that they are being intentionally murdered.
The Ends Justify the Means
A group of idealistic utopians have decided that socialism is a more equitable economic system than capitalism and have managed to gain control of one of our major political parties and to empower a charismatic leader intent upon “fundamentally changing America”. They have every right to believe in any economic system they can imagine, however, they have adopted a set of very deceitful tactics based upon their belief that the “ends justify the means”. These tactics are intentionally creating havoc within our society and destroying the America I thought was indestructible.
If the ends justify the means, things like honesty, fair play, and even legal scruples all take a back seat to their single-minded devotion to their cause. They have become an army of idealistic zealots driven by a hazy utopian vision. They are smart enough to realize that they could never win in a fair fight pitting the current American economy and free society against their all-powerful Big Government, socialist dream.
Consequently, they have decided that they must undermine and destroy the support for the current America if they are ever going to be able to replace it with their utopia. So, they have rather insidiously implemented a multi-pronged attack that includes; creating and inflaming multiple “victim” groups, attacking our history, our morals, our education system, our borders, the nuclear family, religion, our economy, the integrity of our elections, and weaponizing our media and our legal system.
Their objective is to break down our confidence in our society, what we believe, the way we live, and our own self-image. They attack and demonize any who oppose them and have implemented a cancel culture to thoroughly intimidate their opposition. They have perverted the legal system to sue or imprison those who dare to speak against them, including many in leadership positions in the opposing party. They have weaponized intimidation.
Deceitful Tactics
They have been Incredibly successful at creating one victim group after another and preaching hatred for an oppressive America and those deplorable old white men that created this terrible system. They claim to capture the moral high ground by inflaming all these victim groups against this “evil America”. Unfortunately, this tactic successfully plays on the compassionate dispositions of many that unwittingly join their army, totally unaware that they are but pawns in a monumental battle.
And then as if their cancel culture and legal warfare were not enough, they roll out existential threats to not only America, but all of humanity. They use these to generate enough fear in the populous to effectively break their will and their ability to resist radical changes that they, the governing party, want to impose upon America. Pandemics and environmental problems are blown way out of proportion to create fear and force the people to submit to their will. We become a herd of frightened, leaderless sheep they can freely drive in any direction they choose. Even their opposition becomes an “existential threat to democracy” so that they can justify doing anything they can to destroy them.
This is all straight out of the Marxist playbook to create hatred, division, and chaos and to demoralize, isolate, and intimidate all individuals. Their goal is to make everyone feel totally helpless so they will become dependent upon the state not only for their livelihood but also for their “existential safety”.
I have to give them credit, they have a long-term plan and a host of well-concealed and devious tactics in place to effectively deceive large groups of voters into abandoning the principles that built this great country.
Journalism or Propaganda
I am amazed, confused, and really disheartened about how they have been able to capture our mainstream media. There is no longer any discussion of ideas, there is only the party line. Well over 90 % of newspapers and TV outlets are effectively propaganda machines for the party.
J. P. Sears has a comedy podcast he calls “The We Lie to You News” that is painfully hilarious as it focuses a spotlight upon the total lack of integrity that pervades our media. Tucker Carlson used to show how multiple media outlets would use exactly the same words to get out the “message of the day”, making it very obvious that they all were being tightly controlled to constantly sing from the party’s songbook. Tucker was fired along with Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and many more who dared to speak against the party. In America today, you can lose a CEO job for believing marriage is between a man and a woman, or you can go to prison for reading a Bible outside of an abortion clinic. It is all about intimidation and silencing and destroying any opposition.
Our once proud and diverse newspaper industry has been destroyed. They consistently print false and misleading stories and headlines; (again in complete lockstep with the party’s “message of the day”). They bemoan their plummeting sales and blame the internet, but I believe they have destroyed themselves. I would gladly re-subscribe if just for the local news, sports, and the sudoku, crossword, and bridge puzzles, however, a daily dose of their biased propaganda is more than I can stand.
Education or Indoctrination
Tragically, their biggest victory has come in our schools. Academia has historically leaned severely to the left. These brilliant, tenured, privileged, isolated people think socialism is just wonderful and we should all just submit to Big Government control of all aspects of our life, never mind that it has been an unmitigated disaster everywhere it has been tried. Well, unfortunately, we were asleep at the switch over the last sixty years and our universities are now hotbeds of socialism. It is a cancer that they designed to destroy us from the inside, as it thoroughly indoctrinates the next generations with a love of socialism and a hatred of America.
And it is not just the universities, the teachers’ unions are actively pushing the party line down into elementary schools. My sixth-grade grandchildren were forced to listen to 15 minutes of CNN news/propaganda every day as a “cultural enrichment” program. There are numerous stories of high school and college students being intimidated to tow the party line. In many of our once prestigious universities only speakers supporting the party line are allowed on campus and professors who oppose the party line are virtually non-existent in most non-technical departments. Our education system is deeply committed to diversity if diversity is composed of; white socialists, brown socialists, black socialists, gay socialists, trans socialists, female socialists, disabled socialists, and Muslim socialists.
Import and Buy Voters
Just in case none of this is enough to destroy America they have opened the borders and are flooding the country with millions of illegal immigrants to drastically swing the voting base in their favor. They claim this is all done out of compassion for the poor asylum seekers, which is of course a lie to disguise their true objectives.
Integrity and Trust – R.I.P.
We could very easily lose this war for America. We have already lost things critical to our society, perhaps the two most important being integrity and trust. The party’s tactics discussed above hide their real purpose behind some false claim of a higher moral ground. Yet, they were purposefully designed to create division, chaos, and hatred to intimidate, harm, and even destroy people who did not agree with the party line.
There is no integrity in lying and cheating to win and they have taken it to the extreme of weaponizing the law to destroy their opponents. They have taken a 10-year-old misdemeanor at best and convicted their chief opponent of 35 felonies and now have reportedly launched a 50-million-dollar campaign trumpeting that he is a convicted felon. If this is the new “fundamentally changed” America, I grieve for what we have lost.
On election night in 2020 critical swing states mysteriously stopped counting votes at about ten o’clock with Trump winning in each. The next morning about ten they all announced that Biden had won by a similar margin in each. That morning, trust died in the hearts of millions of Americans. They simply do not believe that the COVID-based write-in ballot system was honest.
The ongoing spectacle of the persecution of Trump, his allies, and his supporters is an embarrassment for America and certainly does not inspire any trust in the integrity or fair-mindedness of our ruling party. The parade of high-ranking party officials through congressional hearings where they refuse to directly answer critical questions looks like an Orwellian skit in evasiveness, doublespeak, and cover-your-behind lying. Nothing the ruling party is doing is what is needed to regenerate any trust in our current government.
Summary
None of this is the result of some innocent, well-intentioned social evolution. It is all the result of a well thought out strategic attack on America. Sadly, you can read a variety of Marxist strategists who have been preaching these exact tactics being the path to defeating/destroying America for the last 60 years. We were not paying enough attention.
No one can predict how this will end. However, it would be naïve to believe that some John Wayne will ride in and save us because the good guys always win. The other side is well-organized and winning. They have infiltrated most of our key institutions and are more than willing to lie, cheat, sue, prosecute, and imprison. “Our side” is divided and disorganized and just now waking up to the magnitude of the battle.
Integrity and trust have been intentionally murdered as a means to dishearten and defeat the party’s opposition. America has already lost the moral high ground we stood on, as the entire world is watching us flounder in a sea of internal chaos and lies. Unless we can change the tide of this battle, we could easily lose to those who want to fundamentally change America into an Orwellian, Big Government, oppressive, inefficient socialist state. That would be a devastating blow to individual freedom and the future of humanity.
Ken Pedersen retired as a Vice President of Raytheon managing Advanced Systems a research and development organization. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering with a background in system engineering, information processing, mathematics, and physics. He is the author of two books, Jenny’s Universe, (O, Books 2002) was published in English, German, and Polish and Modern Science Proves Intelligent Design, (Archway Press, 2019). Both discussed what science has discovered about the design of the universe and life. He has published numerous technical and inspirational articles. Ken lives with his wife, Anne, at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
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