by Paul Engel, America Outloud:
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe… Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.”
Is that true?
If the United States were to be destroyed, would it come from inside or out?
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I also came across a video that I had forgotten about that’s part of an interview with Soviet defector Yuri Bezmanov. Mr Bezmanov was a former KGB agent who defected to Canada in 1970. In 1984 he gave an interview to G Edward Griffin, where he exposed a long-term Soviet plan to defeat America not by force of arms but through psychological warfare.
So what does a late 20th-century defector have to do with a 19th-century lawyer and statesman, and how could it possibly be relevant to our situation in the 2020s?
As Daniel Webster warned, America is not being destroyed from without ⏤ but from within. Our apathy about what the federal government does, our carelessness in dealing with the bad actors that inevitably enter government services, and our negligent attitude when the Constitution is violated, have certainly led the United States to the brink of collapse.
Mr. Webster went on to warn:
I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way, they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.
Just think of the things the American people have placed blind confidence in those in government for ⏤ retirement, health care, food and drug safety, education, and energy, just to name a few. Yet no matter how often the government fails, the answer always seems to be a call to give them more. The collapse of our Republic should be laid not at the feet of some nameless, faceless government actor but on the American people who have been duped by their false promises.
However, there is one area where Mr. Webster appears to have gotten things wrong ⏤ because there was a danger from a foreign foe. They used our carelessness and neglect to not only accelerate our destruction ⏤ but also to supplant the American way with a collectivist and communist agenda.
Yuri Bezmanov
As a former KBG officer, Mr. Bezmanov was aware of many of the methods used by that organization to subvert the United States. In his 1984 interview with Mr. Griffin, he detailed some of these techniques, starting with “ideological subversion.” (Please excuse the flaws in the original transcript.)
Ideological subversion is is the process which is legitimate overt and open you you can see it with your own eyes all all you have to do all American mass media has to do is to unplug their bananas from their ears open up their eyes and they can see it … But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is
not in the area of intelligence at all according to my opinion and opinion of many defectors of my caliber only about 15% of time, money, and Manpower is spent on espionage as such the other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures активные меры in the language of of the KGB or psychological warfare what it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves their families their community and their country. It’s a great brainwashing uh process which goes very slow and it’s divided in in four basic stages.
Yuri Bezmanov – G. Edward Griffin Interview Transcript [1984]
Mr. Bezmenov then goes on to describe ideological subversion in some detail.
The first one being demoralization it takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of of of your enemy exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of americanism American patriotism. The result the result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in 60s, dropouts or half baked intellectuals are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them you cannot get rid of them they are contaminated they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you if you expose them to authentic information even if you prove that white is white and black is black you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words these people uh uh the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.
Yuri Bezmanov – G. Edward Griffin Interview Transcript [1984]
In 1960, then First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke at the United Nations, stating that Communism would outlast the United States. While the 1990s made it look like Mr. Khrushchev was wrong, it seems the KGB’s plans may have won in the long run.
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