Korean War Veterans Memorial, The Mall, Washington, DC (National Park Service photo)
Article by Anthony J. DeBlasi in "The American Thinker":
When I returned from the war in Korea (1950-1953), fought to keep communist North Korea from taking over South Korea, our nation was a freer and better place to live in than today. But that would soon change despite the increasing benefits of technology. The following overview of the last seven decades, based on observation and study, will point to the role played in the decline of general wellbeing by domestic enemies of America that I and fellow brothers-in-arms took an oath to also defend against.
During
the 1960s, Woodstock served as a launch pad for hippies and flower
children to play out their fantasies of life. Their minds sacked by
phony “liberalism” and utopian mythology, they reveled 24/7 in
debauchery as thousands of their peers in Vietnam faced hell and death
every moment of every day and every night. When they returned, these
fighters would be reviled while the Woodstock crowd would be celebrated
by phony “liberals” in the media.
By phony liberalism I mean pretending to appreciate differing points of view while rejecting all that don’t fit the party line.
By
the 1970s, as former dropouts from society assumed responsible roles in
life, their looseness in morals and thought spread through the fabric
of American life. Key aspects of life were ignored in entertainment and
literature. Beauty, originality, wonder – essential dimensions of human
life – were fading from view and from consciousness. Factors of
civilized society were being ignored that jarred the mindset of
progressive liberals. Honesty, integrity, and other fundamentals of a
healthy society were being pushed out of American life. They were
“outdated” and therefore disposable, right?
What
was happening was not clear to most people. But it was plain to me and
to observant Americans who were not completely brainwashed by the
“progressivism” launched by Marxist activists after World War I. The
Marxian mission to prepare Americans for life in a world where people
serve the State instead of the other way around – contradicting the
Constitution – was from the beginning an act of treachery.
In 1932 William Z. Foster, general secretary of the Communist Party USA, declared that our way of life was to be “cleansed
of religious, patriotic and other features of bourgeois ideology. The
students will be taught on the basis of Marxian... materialism,
internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society.” In other words, the freedoms
that millions sacrificed their lives to ensure since the birth of this
nation were to be denied and the Constitution of the United States was
to be trashed.
The progressive education
initiated by Marxists and their dupes evidently succeeded in
brainwashing minds, including those of future leaders – many of whom
even now display a profound ignorance of the country they inhabit and
daily reveal minds bloated with Marxist propaganda.
Thankfully,
and to their credit, not every young person fell for the BS and the
slogans that flourished in Woodstock or got swept into the so-called “world peace/anti-war”
movement funded by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. But those who would
or could rally against this invasion of America by its internal enemies
would soon find themselves cornered into a media-starved minority,
thanks to what is now called the “deep state,” an inner circle of
operatives who work to subvert our government. Twenty-sixth president
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) called this cabal “the invisible government.”
Brainwashing
from the old Marxists had done its job of replacing clear thinking with
raw emotion and allowing “social justice” to mean “victims winning over
oppressors,” an updated version of Marxist class warfare. How we got
to this point should not be hard to fathom, unless you believe that it
is “natural” or “evolutionary” for a constitutional republic to morph
into global autocracy. And if you don’t know that America is a
constitutional republic, where have your teachers been all these years?
I recall some of the bumps along the road toward autocracy in America.
In
New York City, the Civil Rights Movement had gone beyond block-busting
neighborhoods to busing school children in order to advance “equality.” I
was not the only one who wondered if jamming the races together and forcing
them to live together was part of Martin Luther King’s “dream.” Was
this course of action with little regard for its consequences a
realistic, let alone Christian way to promote social harmony? And were
those behind this mockery of justice following a Gospel that enjoins all
to love their neighbors as themselves or were they following a leftist
script that calls for “divide and conquer,” then take over?
King’s
“dream” of blacks and whites living peaceably together had been turned
by Marxists into a way to generate conflict between whites and blacks, intensifying racial
division, often to explosive levels, ready for the heavy hand of
government to manage. King surely turned in his grave when “the will of
God” was replaced by the will of political bandits aiming to take charge
of the country.
My
wife and I faced raising our children where, instead of walking to the
school at our corner, they would be required to ride a bus to a distant
school because their skin was the wrong color.
This racist departure from sanity joined other signs of increasing
madness in New York City to convince us to leave New York in 1973, for
the benefit of the children and for our peace of mind.
Perhaps
the greatest morphing bump of all came with the washing of Christianity
out of Christian churches. Since the Gospel is not “progressive” it
became necessary to introduce Liberation Theology into the church
services. Liberation Theology is a Marxist device to liberate Christians
from their faith by “updating” it – that is, by altering the Gospel to
make it agree with Marxist dogma. The deception would be carried out
slowly and gently, as change agents worked to help churchgoers rid
themselves of the evil of Christian orthodoxy and embrace a new
orthodoxy, tainted with Marxism. This I witnessed during my years as
organist in several churches.
Seminaries
would become targets for “progressive” (read, Marxist) infiltration and
centers for indoctrination, in much the way the public schools were
used, decades earlier. Sadly, the majority of the Christian flock failed
to heed Matthew 7:15: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
It
was difficult of course to see that “social justice” measures like
ordaining women as priests in the Episcopalian Church or allowing girls
to play in Little League baseball were in truth not the alleged righting
of past wrongs but a leftist scheme to blur the actual differences
between men and women and girls and boys, in order to turn “equality”
into a political tool for pushing an agenda having precious little to do
with actual justice.
It
was plain to me early on that Americans were being bamboozled into
compliance with a plan to take down America, a country founded on
freedom and justice for all, with opportunity for all to prosper – a reality celebrated in the nation’s
Bicentennial during the mid-seventies. Those who today celebrate the
idea that America needs to be washed off the map for a “better world” –
read, Godless, global dictatorship – are either totally misinformed or
terribly deceived. And they who push for action in that direction mark
themselves as traitors of America.
For the reader who may think that the foregoing is a conspiracy rant, consider this:
“I
never thought that in America I’d experience what it was like for armed
policemen to hand me an official government document, ordering our
community of faithful to cease and desist worshiping on Easter Sunday
and to depart the House of God.” [Jerry Waldrop, pastor of First
Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs in Mississippi,]
This
barely scratches the surface of what America has become since I came
home from Korea. A share of the blame must go to a few “wolves in
judicial clothing” and to all government officials who take oaths of
office, then ignore them.
The
current sorry state of America, highlighted in the mayhem sweeping the
country, is clearly attributable to a politically enhanced hatred of
America and hatred of a president who stands opposed to its foreign and
domestic enemies. The cruelty and brutality across the land, not of
police, but of mercenary thugs, should wake even the “woke” among us.
The
weight of sacrifice, blood and suffering endured by the countless many
who have made and continue to make America the great country it is must
give pause to those who would destroy it.
“It
would be a devastating slap in the face to the brave men and women who
died for our freedom to allow Democrats and fake news media to transform
us into a socialist/communist nation,” wrote Lloyd Marcus recently.
Thank you, Lloyd, and thank all who have stood and continue to stand against America’s enemies, both external and internal.
It’s far past the time to vote all traitors out of office.