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Ideas govern the world
American Thinker ^ | 3 Apr, 2024 | David Carlin

Posted on 04/03/2024 6:13:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How do you get tens of millions of Americans, maybe even hundreds of millions, to believe ideas that at first glance seem to be nothing less than crazy?

When I speak of “crazy ideas,” I have in mind things like the following.

- The idea that a male can become a female by feeling that he is a female, and vice versa.

- The idea that there is nothing morally objectionable about killing an unborn baby at any point, even the last minute, during a nine-month pregnancy.

- The idea that almost all white Americans, except for those who are political liberals, are anti-black racists.

- The idea that compassionate people should feel especially compassionate toward career criminals, provided these criminals belong to a minority group.

- The idea that the USA, a democratic republic since the moment of its birth in 1776, is on the verge of becoming a fascist dictatorship; it all depends on how the presidential election turns out in 2024.

Well, you “sell” these ideas to the American public, or at least to a substantial fraction of the American public, the same way you sell any other items of mass consumption — e.g., breakfast cereal or weight-loss pills.You plan in terms of four factors.

1. Manufacturing.

2. Wholesale marketing.

3. Retail marketing.

4. The ultimate consumers.

Let us look at the way much of America has been persuaded to embrace, or at least to tolerate, our crazy-but-fashionable ideas — not just the crazy ideas I’ve itemized above, but further crazy ideas.New weird ideas pop up almost every day.

1.The ideas are manufactured by left-wing intellectuals (which is to say, ideologues) at two places: think-tanks and some of our nation’s “best” universities. Occasionally, a crazy idea is created by a solo thinker, but he (or she)

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: absurdity; degeneracy

1 posted on 04/03/2024 6:13:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 04/03/2024 6:13:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Solution: Small government


3 posted on 04/03/2024 6:14:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

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4 posted on 04/03/2024 6:18:50 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: MtnClimber

Activists run the world.


5 posted on 04/03/2024 6:26:29 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

For years I’ve viewed the Dims as more of a cult than a political party.


6 posted on 04/03/2024 6:29:21 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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more so, now.


7 posted on 04/03/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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“almost all white Americans are anti-black racists”

Thank you Captain Obvious.


8 posted on 04/03/2024 6:46:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: aquila48

More likely the devil does.


9 posted on 04/03/2024 7:03:45 AM PDT by FES0844
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We were Couped:
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The Great American Coup d’état.

Coup d’état, also called coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements.
Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people working for basic social, economic, and political change, a coup is a change in power from the top that merely results in the abrupt replacement of leading government personnel.

A coup rarely alters a nation’s fundamental social and economic policies, nor does it significantly redistribute power among competing political groups. Among the earliest modern coups were those in which Napoleon overthrew the Directory on November 9, 1799 (18 Brumaire), and in which Louis Napoleon dissolved the assembly of France’s Second Republic in 1851. Coups were a regular occurrence in various Latin American nations in the 19th and 20th centuries and in Africa after the countries there gained independence in the 1960s.

Types of Coups d’Etat

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.

The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.
The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup.

But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed

Types of Coups d’Etat

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.
The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.

The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup. But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed Antifa and BLM has caused in our American cities and see how clearly violence has played a part in the overthrow of our American government.

And then there are Predictors. Event and issues that lead up to a coup. One predictor not listed but which played a very large role in the 2020 coup was the manmade crisis caused by the manmade Covid 19 virus. The manipulation by our enemies to overthrow a legal election using panic over Covid was ingenious.

But there are other components that liberals used in overthrowing America. Lets list them:

1. State Run Media. There is no doubt that the news media and social media are but tools of the Democrats to spread disinformation and lies.

2. Fraudulent Election. There is also no doubt the election on November 3, 2020 was stolen by millions of votes.

3. Collusion with a foreign military power. The Biden’s (Hunter and Joe)collusion with China and other governments played a key role in how and why the election went the way it did.

4. Riots and insurrections. From Minneapolis to Portland to many other cities, we saw government allowed actions of violence and sedition in the streets.

5. A puppet regime. Look at many South American or African overthrows and you will often see a weak leader that is totally controlled by another powerful entity. Joe Biden is the perfect example of a puppet.

6. Goverment Agencies. The FBI is but one of many agencies that have been complicit in undermining the Constitution and was but another part of the coup. The events on 1/6 were completely orchestrated by the FBI using Antifa agents as provocateurs.

7. Troops in the Capitol. How can any coup d’etat be sucessful without a powerful military force to back it up? Pelosi and the democrats show of force - 25,000 troops at the Capitol - was another essential element of how the US was overthrown.

8. Political Prisoners. Yep. We have them also. Months after the events on 1/6 the FBI has rounded up and jailed hundreds of political prisoners with no bail and no trial. The Kangaroo Court verdict and the massively unfair sentence of Derek Chauvin is also an indication of how a Banana Republic sends innocent people to jail simply because they are on the wrong side of politics in this country.

9. Suppression of Civil Rights. The right to vote is a fundamental freedom. The liberals stealing millions of votes in effect removed our right to vote. We also had the right to free speech removed. Facebook, Twitter, Google and other media sites are very public ways to express our freedoms. The very idea that they routinely and capriciously remove and cancel conservative POV’s is unconstitutional. And what about the authoritative and illegal lockdowns we endured. The USSR would have been proud of that.

More Info on how this coup was successful
An American Coup
New English Review ^ | Jan 2021 | Daniel Mallock

It’s a Coup. Just Say It!
American Thinker ^ | Jay Valentine

American Coup
Frontpage Mag ^ | Nov 9, 2020 | Daniel Greenfield

The election coup plot, explained
American Thinker ^ | November 5, 2020 | Thomas Lifson

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes: No doubt about it, the coup d’etat was successful.
Rutherford Institute ^ | 01/20/2021 | John Whitehead

You Have Been Couped
The Gates of Vienna ^ | January 15, 2021 | H. Numan

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10 posted on 04/03/2024 7:41:31 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: BenLurkin

so you believe that?!!!


11 posted on 04/03/2024 7:53:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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