The worst of it is, people believe them. They don't have to have any proof of what they say, they aren't held accountable for what they say. You can have experts try to set the record straight. It doesn't matter. And to me this is beyond scarry.
look up Yuri Bezmenov. He was a defector who talked about how deliberate ideological subversion was happening in this country. He knew what he was talking about - that was his own particular line of expertise when he worked for the enemy.
YURI BEZMENOV: "Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate and open. You can see it with your own eyes.... It has nothing to do with espionage....
.... slow process which we call either
ideological subversion, active measures,
or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information
no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
It's a great
brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into
four basic stages. The first one being "
demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words,
Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students
without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....
The result? The result you can see ... the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the
positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated.
They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern[alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
In other words [for] these people the process of
demoralization is complete and
irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.
The
demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it's over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to
lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
The next stage is
destabilization.... It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. This time what matters is essentials; economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly that in some... sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy,
the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast......"