Yuri Bezmenov and warnings unheeded

 Here's a must-watch. Soviet KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov lecturing around 1984. He sounds like he was watching us through a time machine, and he tells the people then how they can prevent us from getting to where we are.

Understanding the Modern Political Scenario

At least every minute in the video there is an insight that makes me want to pound my head on the desk because it's 40 years too late, but here's one I thought was particularly apropos about reversing the process of demoralization:

At that point, at the point of destabilization, also this could be reversed, again, easier than this [crisis stage]. No CIA involvement at this point. You know what it takes here? Restriction of some liberties for small groups which are self-declared enemies of the society. Simple as that.

'Oh, no,' the media and liberals will tell you. 'This is against the American Constitution. How can we by force deny the civil rights to criminals?' for example. 'Not good!' So, okay, you allow the criminals to have civil rights. Go on, bring the country to the crisis. This is the bloodless way to do it. Curb the rights. I'm not to put them in prison. No, no, I'm not talking about putting all the gays from San Francisco into the concentration camp. Do not allow them to take political force. Do not elect them to the seats of power, whether it is municipality level, state level, federal level. It has to be bitten in the heads of American voters: a person like that in the seats of power is an enemy. Do not be afraid of this word. It is an enemy. If he is not an enemy here [points to chart of subversion stages on board, of screen], he will be here [points to another spot on off-screen board]. Later on, he will be shot, of course [call back to earlier point in the talk where he says the early destabilization agents are always eliminated after their purpose is fulfilled]. But at this point he is an enemy.

You are doing him a great service by denying him a right to capitalize on his own crazy ideas and become a powerful man, a man who uses the seat of power.