Succumbing to Sixty Years of Propaganda

Succumbing to Sixty Years of Propaganda

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell

Greetings my fellow Americans!

Regardless of the sensibility, or lack thereof, of anything uttered in public by any member of the non-defunct House Unamerican Activities Committee, or by former Senator Joseph McCarthy and his ilk, during the relative tumult of the mid-20^th-Century, there can be little doubt among those of us old enough to remember when we had schools and public leaders who espoused and trumpeted the virtues of the original American philosophy and worldview. Children were taught the relative novelty, and beauty, of the notion of “unalienable rights endowed by our Creator,” and government “of, by, and for the people,” and those swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America” at least generally seemed to be taking that oath much more seriously than most such oath-takers today.

As with any society and civilization made up completely of fallen humans, the United States of America has not been without its problems; name one such group of people since our species has walked the Earth which hasn’t. Of course, absent the latter historical perspective, combined with selective recall of events and quotes either taken out of context or couched in a false or highly misleading premise, and fed to a relatively ignorant, uneducated, and/or greatly misinformed populace, and you have the recipe for rewriting history to suit the ambitions and objectives of enemy agents.

As I’ve personally sought over my years to better understand how we managed to be set upon our drift away from our founding principles, I have come to realize that those agencies have constantly surrounded us since that founding, and that refutation of anything remotely related to freedom and liberty, as advocated and codified by those who authored our charter documents, has been the mission of those who, for one reason or another, do not, or have never, ascribed to our notion of self-government.

And yet, for much of our relatively short 245-year history, we have been able to beat back those who wished to destroy us from outside, as we established and preserved sufficient unity and resolve to stand together on those foundational principles. Meanwhile, we became blinded to any such threats coming from within our own borders, and gradually lost our ability to maintain the internal unity and sense of shared purpose—our “why” to be American, why being American has been such a privilege and exceptional feat compared to the rest of human history, and the personal and individual responsibility each of us has had in shielding and preserving our way of life from the omnipresent threats thereto.

Maybe it’s because of the time in which I have experienced this gradual transformation firsthand, but it seems like our drift away from America to whatever it is we have today (which seems now quite anti-American, especially at the national level) has accelerated greatly over the past 60 or so years. Granted, we did subject ourselves to an egregious Civil War, during which tens of thousands of Americans died for in what they believed; but even then, it was never about outright hatred, nor complete abandonment, of the principles of liberty and self-government which had withstood the threats from Mother Britain, and others, up to that time, and in which many of those who stood opposed during our internal conflict had fought shoulder-to-shoulder against those who threatened our sovereignty from without.

Even as recently as the early 1960s, it seemed as if most of us still sufficiently shared the sense of purpose and resolve to preserve, protect and defend America, despite its flaws, as the greater good was still being taught and ascribed to. We were still largely United.

Since about 1965, we seem to have been on an overall trajectory toward something other than that rooted in (and, dare I say, diametrically opposed to) American principles. The eight-year presidency of Ronald Reagan helped to slow that progression, but did not stop it, and nearly all of what had been accomplished in that span has since been eradicated under both Republican and Democratic majority rule. Likewise, 39 months of whatever President Trump had managed to usurp, mostly by EO fiat, was summarily undone during his last nine, and obliterated within the first twelve of Biden.

It has been said that we are now in a “cold civil war.” I accept that sentiment on its face, though I believe the ideological rifts between us run far broader and deeper than they did back in 1865. For a philosophy and worldview like America to be truly great, you need a majority of people who are both intellectually and emotionally invested in the shared vision and purpose of being “united.” And to nurture and preserve that shared purpose, you need a general public sufficiently educated in the history of mankind, and who understands and accepts that, virtually since the beginning of that recording, Man has been unable to sustain the likes of a civilization such as the United States of America, so that they may truly appreciate how exceptional its existence has been in the annals of humanity, and with the wherewithal to recognize the anti-American propaganda which spews from our current government and media for what it is, and be willing to fight—and die, for the human exceptionalism it seeks to thoroughly, and permanently, extinguish

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