The Mind Game Tearing Our Communities Apart

The plan, though, it wasn't tanks and bombs and the traditional warfare sense that you and I might think of.

Instead, it was a plan that was much more ambitious than and a longer-lasting form of warfare and ultimate overthrow.

It was the plan to overthrow the United States through ideological and psychological warfare.

Now, to you and me, all this sounds fantastic, kind of sensationalistic.

Even as I say it, I'm kind of like, really? But I would add to the rulers of a communist country, their rule in the first place is largely obtained through continuous fraud and propaganda.

They're the experts at how to overthrow a free country and to rule a populace with an iron fist.

This is how these people think.

And so applying it to their enemies, it isn't an incredible stretch of the imagination.

Rather, it's more of kind of like a Yeah, duh.

Of course the communists would weaponize this.

It's been weaponized so beautifully against their own people.

Why not use it against their enemies to subjugate them? So this type of warfare is what they use at home.

So to do it to an enemy, that's a real easy mental shift for them.

Hard for us, easy for them.

So, Besmanoff described the communist plan against the West as a great brainwashing that has four basic stages.

We're going to go through the stages, and I'm going to attempt to show how these phases are realized right here and now in the world we live in.

Now, I'm going to attempt to go through these one by one and really expand them and bring the world around us under these points.

And holy smokes, very upsetting.

Now, the stages.

The first stage, Besmanoff said, is the demoralization stage.

The second, destabilization.

Third, crisis.

And finally, depression.

So we'll take all these