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Democrats, Progressivism, Russia / March 4, 2022 March 4, 2022

If you’re a baby boomer born after WW2 then you would probably remember this…

Those old enough to remember the sixties will recall the anti-war movement

that engulfed the country.

And who can forget the eighties…when leftists at home and in Europe seem to fear President Reagan more than the evil empire. There was the nuclear freeze movement.

In Vermont, there were peace marches,

During the weekend of August 6, 1981, Patty Heather-Lea walked one leg of a peace march from Washington to Moscow. That’s Washington, Vt., to Moscow, Vt.

“I had just gotten married,” recalls Heather-Lea, who’s now 60 and a high school math teacher in Bristol. She remembers “wanting to do something, wanting somebody to wake up to what was going on in the world.” So she marched to Montpelier with a sign that read “Let’s Have a World for Our Grandchildren.”

As of March 2022, the 72-year-old Ms. Heather-Lea has never strayed from her “progressive” roots. I doubt she voiced much condemnation of the burning of American cities in 2020. I imagine she rejoiced when the Orange man when down to defeat. Now the planet would be saved, cancer would be cured, equality of outcomes achieved, the white male patriarchy suppressed.

I can only speculate what her thoughts are now. An open border, out-of-control crime, currency inflation, the rise of authoritarianism (it’s ok as long as it’s my side in charge and it’s only white male deplorable’s getting their heads cracked and thrown in jail), and closer to WW3 as at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. If the unthinkable should happen climate change will be the least of our worries. All this while living in the largest white liberal gated community in the nation. Yes, I’m referring to Vermont.

Phil Scott told reporters, “I put country over party. It’s been a bit of a struggle for me, but I ended up voting for Joe Biden.”

Sleep well, Joe, Kamala, and our “woke military” are on guard.

Always remember: Dissent is patriotic when Republicans are in charge.

Dissent is treason when Democrats are in charge.

Of course the Russians have been meddling

Russia, Socialism / July 21, 2018 July 21, 2018

It’s be going on a long long time.

34 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America

In 1984, Bezmenov gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin from which much can be learned today. His most chilling point was that there’s a long-term plan put in play by Russia to defeat America through psychological warfare and “demoralization”. It’s a long game that takes decades to achieve but it may already be bearing fruit.

And this explains why young millennials in general and leftist millennials in particular seem to be oblivious to the facts that can be seen right before their eyes. That they have deluded themselves to an ideology that produces nothing but abject misery and the destruction of liberty. And the lessons of history mean absolutely nothing.

He used the examples of 1960s hippies coming to positions of power in the ’80s in the government and businesses of America. Bezmenov claimed this generation was already “contaminated” by Marxist-Leninist values. Of course, this claim that many baby boomers are somehow espousing KGB-tainted ideas is hard to believe but Bezmenov’s larger point addressed why people who have been gradually “demoralized” are unable to understand that this has happened to them.

Referring to such people, Bezmenov said:

“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.”

What is happening right now in Venezuela just doesn’t seem to register.

And this is the most disturbing part.

In what is perhaps a most striking passage in the interview, here’s how Bezmenov described the state of a “demoralized” person:

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”