[Mere Survival]

“No one would have believed in the early years of the 20th century that our country was being watched by intelligences equal to our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, *they* observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about America, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of the ocean, intellects communist to facist and unsympathetic regarded our country with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us.”

[BigCinBigD]

There is no end to the possibility's for the use of this prologue.

[Brett66]

LOL! I think your version is getting closer to the truth. I think of Pelosi as more of an insect-like mind.