That's the vulnerability of a free society, which is why the press in the past has been an important watchdog, and why now that they have been ideologically blinded and silenced we are more vulnerable than ever.
If anyone thinks that during all of the spending on military hardware and nuclear arsenals during the cold war the other side wasn't also plotting and planning long term strategies for destabilizing our society from within, using our own open society against us, they are naive. It's no coincidence that the American political turn towards the left began shortly after the collapse of the USSR. It was time for more concentration on plan B for the other side.
“If anyone thinks that during all of the spending on military hardware and nuclear arsenals during the cold war the other side wasn’t also plotting and planning long term strategies for destabilizing our society from within, using our own open society against us, they are naive. It’s no coincidence that the American political turn towards the left began shortly after the collapse of the USSR. It was time for more concentration on plan B for the other side.”
I agree with your analysis, but not the time line. With 20/20 hindsight over my 72 years there is strong evidence that the decade of the sixties was the real above ground turning point.