Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov revealed the systematic plan the Soviet communists used to take down target countries and establish a replacement communist-type society and regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today with what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The systematic plan revealed by Bezmenov, involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) Demoralization, 2) Disorientation, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization. Xi Van Fleet explains, in her book, Mao’s America, how Mao’s destruction of the Four Olds: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits is being replicated by today’s woke cancel culture, which if not stopped will end what is left of freedom in America.
The first stage in the Bezmenov analysis, demoralization, is a long stage lasting a generation or more. One of its main thrusts is to undermine the Judeo-Christian beliefs, customs, habits, and traditions that have been foundational to America—the parallel Four Olds that Mao destroyed in China. Another target for demoralization is the family, which the communists want to replace with the state. Xi Van Fleet points out that just as the Chinese Cultural Revolution turned children against their parents, American families are under increasing attack with children being increasingly turned against their parents by government schools, the medical establishment and popular culture that now includes support for gender dysphoria and the transgender movement. A third demoralization strategy is breaking the people’s loyalty and love for their country by rewriting history, denigrating the founders and national heroes, and destroying historic monuments—again, The Four Olds. In summary, the goal of demoralization is to disconnect people with the virtue of the past and render them unable to assess what is true.
The second stage of the communist strategy according to Bezmenov builds on demoralization and to advance society’s disorientation, a condition wherein the masses feel bewildered and helpless. While at this time it’s impossible to prove intentionality, the China-originated Covid-19 so-called pandemic caused massive disorientation in the U.S. by mandatory mask mandates, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, and the abandonment of tried-and-true medical practices of preventive and therapeutic treatments.
Another important part of disorientation that happened early in the Covid crisis was the ginned-up racism after the death of George Floyd, which triggered rioting, looting and destruction of several billion dollars’ worth of property and the tearing down of historic statues and memorials in many cities across the United States. Disorientation of Americans was advanced further when people realized that authority appeared unable or unwilling to do anything about the destruction going on in big cities across America. There were few arrests while some 1,000 police officers were injured and 33 were killed. Disorientation may have reached its peak at this time when cities with the most lawlessness like Minneapolis, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore initiated efforts to defund their police and law enforcement.
The stage that follows “disorientation” is the “crisis” stage. An unprecedented crisis stage for America came in November 2020 with election rigging. The fear factor of Covid contagion had been exploited by Democrat operatives in the summer months of 2020. They visited most every swing state to affect change in each’s respective voting rules to accommodate expanded mail-in ballots, drop boxes, and extended vote tally deadlines—all of which facilitate vote fraud.
The crisis of the questionable government legitimacy which ensued from election irregularity was deepened by massive media and social media censorship and cancellation campaigns well before the November 3, 2020 election. The Federal Government’s Department of Homeland Security division called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, better known as CISA collaborated with the Stanford University-based NGO Election Integrity Project (EIP) to suppress information that would help Trump.
EIP launched a campaign to prevent the public from challenging the anticipated voting irregularities by getting agreements from all the social media companies–Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube, Reddit, and Pinterest—to modify their customer terms of service policies to incorporate language about “delegitimization.” Once that was accomplished, according to Mike Benz, a former U.S. State Department communications policy maker and an expert on propaganda, the door was opened to algorithmic mass censorship and cancellation. And that was accomplished by EIP exerting pressure on all the social media companies to adhere to their customer service policies and censor, cancel or deplatform any content that contained “delegitimized” terms such as: “new election protocols and processes,” “issues and outcomes,” “vote flipping,” “mail-in ballots,” “early voting,” “drop boxes,” and “Antifa.”
The media treatment of the Hunter Biden laptop story that broke in mid-October 2020 in the New York Post, illustrates how the channels of propaganda and media manipulation fall into place quickly. No sooner did the Hunter Biden laptop story containing massive incriminating evidence revealing a compromised Joe Biden family appear in the New York Post than it was immediately delegitimized, and taken down from every social media site. At the same time 51 former top intelligence officials signed a letter, published in the New York Times and the Washington Post stating that the contents of the Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
After the 2020 election, when many Americans felt disenfranchised and had many questions about perceived irregularities, they found that social media effectively thwarted discussion about election fraud, again facilitated by EIP’s insistence to social media companies to uphold the terms of service contracts that required censoring and canceling social media content containing new delegitimized terms such as “Stop the Steal,” “dead voter rolls,” “Sharpiegate,” “manufactured ballots,” “stolen election,” “ballot harvesting,” “interstate ballot delivery,” and “Postal Service” to name a few. Additionally, people questioning the integrity of the 2020 election, were marginalized by the media—discredited as “election deniers.”
Bemenov’s four stages are fluid, so that demoralization and disorientation continue in the crisis stage. We see this with lawfare against Donald Trump, his aides and some 1200+ January 6 participants arrested by the FBI. The target is not just Trump and his supporters, but the American people who are now seeing the justice system in America resembling that of a banana republic. With equal justice under the law and respect for the Constitution being mocked, the subliminal message is, “This is not the America you know, it’s a new world that you have entered, so get used to it.”
While America is still in the crisis stage, some subversion experts argue that the lawfare, censorship and cancellation regimes that now exist are really part of the last stage of communist takeover known as “normalization”—Bezmenov’s fourth and final stage. If America’s borders lack integrity and remain open, and the American people are denied access to information, become accustomed to rigged elections, accept limitations on free speech, and acquiesce to the rewriting of history facilitated by cancellation and deconstructing the past, the constitutional republic that was United States will be gone, and the new world of communist global elite control will be normalized.
John Adams, the second president, unequivocally warned, “Liberty once lost is lost forever.” It is no longer enough to just man the ramparts. It’s time for the people to totally turn the tables on the elite destroyers of our Constitutional Republic.
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Scott Powell is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger China and senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His timeless book, Rediscovering America, was a #1 Amazon new release in history for eight straight weeks. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599). Reach him at [email protected]