{"id":2635,"date":"2019-07-23T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:52:33","slug":"real-russian-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Real Russian Collusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yuri Alexandrovich\nBezmenov was a Soviet<\/a> journalist\nfor RIA Novosti<\/em><\/a>, Russia’s international news agency.  He was also an informant for the Soviet First Main Directorate KGB,\nwho defected to the West in 1985 after becoming disillusioned with Soviet-style\ncommunism.     <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bezmenov stated that, while posted in India, he\u2019d been \u201cinstructed not to\nwaste time with idealistic leftists (otherwise known as \u2018useful idiots\u2019 in\ncommunist circles), as these would become disillusioned, bitter, and\nadversarial when they realized the true nature of Soviet Communism.\u201d  Upon discovering that many such idealists were\nslated for execution once the Soviets achieved control, his disaffection led\nhim to begin making plans to defect to the West.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1985 he executed his plan.  Upon arriving\nin North America and being granted political asylum in Canada, Bezmenov had a\nvery grim message for the American people. \nHe described the ideological subversion that has been ongoing in the\nU.S. for decades as a process in which the perception of reality of every\nAmerican has been changed to such a degree that \u201cdespite the abundance of\ninformation (available to them), no one is able to come to sensible conclusions\nin the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and\ntheir country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on to describe ideological subversion as \u201ca great\nbrainwashing process which goes very slowly and is divided into four basic\nstages:  The first (is) demoralization.  It takes from 15-20 years to demoralize a\nnation.  Why that many years?  Because this is the minimum number of years\nrequired to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy.  In other words, Marxist ideology has been pumped\ninto the soft skulls of at least three generations of U.S. students without\nbeing challenged or counter-balanced by the basic values of Americanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe result?  The\nresult you can see,\u201d he continued.  \u201cMost\nof the people who graduated in the sixties\u2026 drop-outs or half-baked\nintellectuals\u2026 are now occupying the positions of power in the government,\ncivil service, business, mass media, the educational system.  You are stuck with them.  You cannot get rid of them. They are\ncontaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a\ncertain pattern.  You cannot change their\nminds, even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that\nwhite is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception\nand the logic of behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn other words, (in) these people, the process of\ndemoralization is complete and irreversible. \nTo rid society of these people you need another fifteen or twenty years\nto educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and common-sense people who\nwould be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most glaring examples of the ideological\nsubversion and demoralization Bezmenov described can be seen in the almost\ntotal lack of knowledge of American history and world geography that we find in\nchildren educated in American public schools. \nAs a grammar school student during the 1940s, I can recall geography quizzes\nin which one of the questions might have been: \u201cName twelve European countries\nand their capitals.\u201d  It was a rare\nstudent who could not answer such questions quickly and correctly.  But how many of today\u2019s 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup>\ngrade students could match our knowledge of geography?  And if today\u2019s students are incapable of\nlocating the nations of Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America on a map, let\nalone identify the fifty U.S. states and their major cities, how can we expect\nthem to have any real sense of belonging, of family history, of ethnic\nidentity, of national pride?  And if the\nAmerican people suddenly made a giant collegial decision to return to the\neducational standards and methods of yesteryear, it would take at least two\ngenerations to purge the bad actors out of our schools, our school boards, our\ncolleges and universities, and our school administrations.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ideological subversion and demoralization that Bezmenov\ndescribed is thoroughly understood by conservatives.  We have recognized it and fought against it\nunremittingly for nearly a century, yet we see evidence of it all around us\u2026 every\nday, in every way.  But one doesn\u2019t have\nto be a conservative to understand the ideological rot that has slowly but\nsurely infected the minds of a great many Americans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 12, 2016, New York Times<\/em> columnist, David Brooks,<\/em> had this to say: \u201cI never really understood how fascism could have come to Europe, but I think I understand better now. \u00a0You start with some fundamental historical transformation, like the Great Depression or the shift to an information economy. \u00a0A certain number of people are dispossessed. \u00a0They lose identity, self-respect and hope.\u00a0 They begin to base their sense of self-worth on their tribe, not their behavior. \u00a0They become mired in their resentments, spiraling deeper into the addiction of their own victimology. They fall for politicians who lie about the source of their problems and about how they can surmount them.

\u201cFacts lose their meaning. \u00a0Entertainment replaces reality.\u00a0 Once facts are unmoored, everything else is unmoored, too. \u00a0People who value humility and kindness in private life abandon those traits when they select leaders in the common sphere. \u00a0Hardened by a corrosive cynicism, they fall for morally deranged little showmen\u2026 (name any prominent Democrat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNormally, nations pull together after tragedy, but a society plagued by dislocation and slipped off the rails of reality can go the other way. \u00a0Rallies become gripped by an exaltation of tribal fervor. \u00a0Before you know it, political life has spun out of control, dragging the country itself into a place both bizarre and unrecognizable.\u00a0 This happened in Europe in the 1930s. \u00a0We\u2019re not close to that kind of descent in America today, but we\u2019re closer than we\u2019ve been\u2026 \u00a0How can America answer a set of generational challenges when the leadership class is dysfunctional, political conversation has entered a post-fact era, and the political parties are divided on racial lines\u2026? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who can make the case that\npolitical conversation in America has not entered a \u201cpost-fact\u201d era, or that\nthe America of 2019 is not a \u201cbizarre and unrecognizable\u201d place when compared\nto the America of the 1950s?  Since when\nhave facts meant anything to liberals and Democrats?  In 2016 they were so certain that they would\nretake the White House that, when they lost, they staged what can only be\ndescribed as a thinly veiled coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em> against Donald Trump.  They used an all-hands-on-deck effort to\nconvince their base that Trump was (is) a tool of the Kremlin.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the obtuse nature of the\nDemocrat Party, we can\u2019t say we weren\u2019t warned. \n We can\u2019t say we didn\u2019t know what\nwas coming. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul R. Hollrah is a retired\ngovernment relations executive and a two-time member of the U.S. Electoral\nCollege.  He currently lives and writes\namong the hills and lakes of northeast Oklahoma\u2019s Green Country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti, Russia’s international news agency.  He was also an informant for the Soviet First Main Directorate KGB, who defected to the West in 1985 after becoming disillusioned with Soviet-style communism.      … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}