If they can keep you in an unthinking fear loop, they can stop you from questioning or confronting them about the damage they heap onto society. There is one necessary component for the left’s agenda to be successful—the annihilation of the ordinary person’s personal courage—the trait required to withstand danger and fear. When courage is lost, with it goes the willingness to confront the powerful and malevolent.
It is this conjuring of ancient, mindless fear that tyrants have perfected through millennia, propelling us into actions and decision-making based on emotion, absent the mediators of logic and reason. It is not about distracting us with frightening event after frightening event but indoctrinating us into a perpetual fear-based “new normal.” It’s an exhausting state, creating anxiety, paranoia, and with it a retreat from social and political life. The goal of killing our minds, turning us into fear-driven automatons lacking confidence and courage, willing to bow and conform, is the putrid soup served up by the Marxists, tyrants, bullies, and bureaucracies, preferring that all of us stay out of their way.
The deliberate strategy of using fear as a weapon of control dates back to ancient times, but modern communications and other technological tools give the fearmongers power unimaginable in years past. Marxists, bullies, and malignant narcissists occupying positions of power throughout our governmental and cultural infrastructure are using fear to distract, depress, isolate, and mentally disarm us. And sadly, they’re succeeding.
But I have a secret for you, and this book will reveal it in great detail—the left is weak, and they know it. Their only hope for success is keeping you distracted and too afraid to look up. Having once been on the left, I can tell you that every ounce of so-called progressive energy is spent on keeping us manipulated, brainwashed, and afraid. Every day, every project, every action is required to maintain the fraud of this leftist fearmongering. Killing our minds is the singular goal for the left, and it’s a 24/7 effort.
You may read this and think: That’s not me. I’m not afraid. However, you have friends or family who are like this. They are probably longtime Democrats, and you have watched them move from classically liberal to seeing everything through a haze of hysterical, apocalyptic talking points.
Progressives are desperate for us to believe that we are the problem, that America is the problem, and most of all, that any and all dissent from their orthodoxy must be quashed. Why? Because leftist ideology is a house of cards; the only way to maintain it is to either imprison their opposition, or, at the very least, imprison the minds of those who object.
The answer to our dilemma starts with understanding that fear itself is natural, but weaponizing fear is an unnatural construct; that fear is a constantly used tool to specifically keep us from inquiring or questioning. It is a method that is so refined and has been used for so long that being constantly afraid in various degrees feels natural and normal—but it’s not. Killing our minds—creating such despair through fear that we abandon any sense of hope, passion, or drive to be involved in the course of our lives—is not an easy thing to do. The plan is weakened the moment we become aware of the agenda and the tactics involved, making us immediately less vulnerable to the fearmongering meant to start our spiral into anxiety and confusion.
We are seen by the bureaucratic state as pawns to be kept poor, ignorant, and afraid. Our overcoming this assault starts with information, and it starts now. By the end of this book, it will be clear to you how we can and will overcome this modern catastrophe of the Marxist state in America.
The catastrophic reaction by our government and the left-wing media in response to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates my central argument. Excited and self-obsessed, the progressive establishment demanded we sacrifice our freedom, our decency, and sometimes even our lives to validate their sense of self-importance. The bureaucratic excitement was palpable. A global “emergency” would be their ticket to speed along the quelling of populations who, in their rotted worldview, were too ignorant to know what was good for them. These tiny tyrants were wrong, as they often are.
Then their masks came off, and many of them partied, traveled, and dined out as they mandated masks and lockdowns for everyone else. Any semblance of reasoned governing evaporated as the suit-wearing malignant narcissists running our country and many other nations decided this was the turning point to implement fear using every available method possible. How far could they push us? What idiotic rules could they impose? By drowning us in fear and turning us against each other, how many minds could they kill, how much power could they grab?
The catastrophe of the pandemic was not just the virus itself that claimed millions of lives around the world, but also the orgy of fear, abuse, punishment, and deadly decisions the establishment class inflicted on the rest of us. The economy was shredded, the education of children suffered with the closure of schools, small businesses closed forever, and loved ones died alone in hospitals. Thousands of infirm Americans were killed1, 2, 3 when some governors shockingly ordered people infected with COVID to be moved into the most vulnerable environment of them all—nursing homes.4, 5
Some politicians and bureaucrats are now, ironically, telling us they lost their minds during the height of the pandemic because they were too concerned and simply made mistakes. Some are suggesting we should forgive and forget.6 Their excuses sound much like the sentiment former football star O. J. Simpson expressed as he leaned over his murdered ex-wife’s casket at her funeral and whispered: “I loved you too much . . . that was my problem . . . I loved you too much.”7 Simpson was eventually found responsible by a civil jury for killing both Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, in an all-too-familiar domestic abuse outcome. The disgraced former football star died of cancer in 2024.
Much like a person being targeted every day by a violent, irrational, and pathological spouse, we are in the midst of a wholly unnatural and calculated circus of fear, anxiety, and control. In our case, it is implemented not just by one person who desires to control our lives but by a cadre of politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, and establishment lackeys appointing themselves experts, champions, leaders, leftist social justice warriors, and even, as Dr. Anthony Fauci once claimed, the human embodiment of science itself.8 With Marxism needing a makeover, they’ve even given themselves the positive-sounding name “progressives,” as if anyone opposed to their malevolent ideology is opposed to progress and wants to drag society backward into a less enlightened and less compassionate time.
The tactics of abusive government and the techniques unleashed in domestic violence are almost identical. Psychology Today details the means batterers use as they target their partners. See if any of this strikes you as familiar:
Abusers make their victims doubt what they know and establish the terms of reality to make their behavior seem acceptable or normal. Some tactics that abusers employ include isolating victims socially, restricting access to information, and enforcing rules with punishments. An abuser’s mind control is powerful and grounded in social forces, making it challenging for victims to leave an abusive relationship.9
Domestic abusers use mind control, gaslighting, language shifts, and threats to personal economic and social safety to gain complete and unchallenged control of the lives of their victims. Abusers in control of government and other dominant institutions in our society do the same thing on a massive scale as they seek to dominate us all. They isolate us socially, lecture us about how we are irredeemably racist or bigoted, and tell us we are destroying the environment and threatening the extinction of all life on Earth. They criminalize thoughts and speech, censoring information and media outlets that dare to expose the truth or allow us to have a voice. They fire people for having the wrong opinion, and socially shun those who don’t accept their “politically correct” ideological diktats.
As the rules dictated by progressives become more absurd, and the dangers associated with challenging the status quo become existential, the left anticipates the average person will naturally retreat. We are to surrender not just from public life, but from caring about the country and what our survival means for the world. Killing our minds is the only way their backward and deadly progressivism can survive.
The October 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis by the Hamas terrorist group, when over 1,400 civilians were murdered in horrific ways, thousands wounded, and hundreds taken hostage, all videotaped to be shared around the world,10 was meant to frighten all of humanity, and to inspire psychopaths.
Like a well-oiled machine that had been switched on, immediately after the carnage thousands of people were demonstrating and marching at universities and in the streets in the centers of Western civilization—including New York; Washington, DC; London; Paris; Madrid; Rome; Sydney, in support of . . . Hamas terrorists. These displays included openly chanting “gas the Jews,”11 to assaulting, harassing, threatening, and chasing Jewish bystanders, students, and anyone else who displayed or voiced support for Israel or the Jewish people.12, 13, 14
These obscene spectacles were spawned by the left’s success at dividing Americans against each other by race, and the brainwashing of their acolytes (conveniently through universities), implementing the cancer of Marxism’s Critical Race Theory (CRT) to poison our society with a zero-sum game of oppressed versus oppressors. This dynamic was made-to-order for Jew-hating Islamists who were likely thrilled with how easy it was to fold the Jews in with everyone else condemned as “colonists” and “oppressors.” Suddenly, terrorizing Jews throughout the United States and worldwide became freedom fighting within the progressive infrastructure.
Brainwashing people into believing that millions of other human beings—their neighbors, friends, family, coworkers—are a stain on humanity because of an immutable characteristic requires mind-killing. Logic, reason, and rationality have to be abandoned in order to operate on such a medieval level. It is the instilling of this degree of fear and envy that unlocks the door to loathing.
History is full of genocides made possible because one group was brainwashed into believing another group was “irredeemable” and dangerous. Once “whiteness,”15 a deliberately malleable term, is demonized and condemned, the next trick is declaring all critics and political opponents as “white” (regardless of their race or ethnicity) because they have the same conceptual “privilege” or are in league with people who happen to be white.16 It’s madness, of course, but the twentieth century is a showcase of that barbarity, with the twenty-first century beginning to give it a run for its money.
After decades of professors inculcating students with the Marxist theory that, as a matter of social justice principle, white people can and should be hated, what has followed is not surprising. The fruit of that poisonous tree has obscenely manifested as open marches declaring solidarity and support for a psychopathic terrorist group’s savage attack on Jewish people—including babies, women, the disabled, and the elderly.
Whether it is terrorism, war, crime, or civil strife, political rhetoric is meant to frighten everyone into compliance with whatever the latest emergency decree might be, or to be foot soldiers of envy and hate spreading more suffering, oppression, and fear. Either way, the social derangement continues, as the lives of average people are destroyed, individual freedom is quashed, and politicians become even more wealthy and powerful.
In the past, we have been able to rely on American values to keep our country from falling into that disgusting and nihilistic Old World inclination toward fascism and genocide. But alarmingly, surveys do indicate an unusual and dangerous recent retreat by the American people from the values that have made our country the greatest on Earth.
According to a 2023 Wall Street Journal/National Opinion Research Center survey, dwindling numbers of Americans are embracing the values of patriotism, religion, and community involvement. The New York Post reports that the survey found that only “38% of Americans say patriotism is ‘very important’ to them, down from 70% who said the same in 1998. Slightly more Americans (39%) placed the same importance on religion, down from 62% who said faith was ‘very important’ to them 25 years ago. The percentage of Americans who said raising children was ‘very important’ fell to 30% in the new poll, down from 59% in 1998. Meanwhile, the share of Americans who valued involvement in their community as ‘very important’ fell to 27%—down from a high of 62% in 2019, the last time the question was polled.”17
“Social justice” activists must love this poll. The goal is to convince people all institutions and systems are corrupt. Only wholesale social engineering by a government rebuilt from the ground up can fix problems this big, they insist. As people lose hope they retreat. That’s the impact of a generation of Americans emerging from schools that have become Marxist indoctrination camps. Children are being taught that the traditional values of their parents and grandparents are bigoted and as outdated as horse-drawn carriages and the telegraph. The brave souls who dare stand up to progressive dogma are being denounced, canceled, and demonized by the left.
Our situation is so dire that even the New York Times, choosing to ignore its own role as the Democratic Party’s woke stenographer-in-chief dutifully debasing the American potential, published an editorial in 2022 headlined “America Has a Free Speech Problem.” They lamented:
For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned. This social silencing, this depluralizing of America, has been evident for years, but dealing with it stirs yet more fear. It feels like a third rail, dangerous. For a strong nation and open society, that is dangerous.18
You don’t say!
Moreover, in 2020—as we were enduring the Black Lives Matter/Antifa summer of riots—the Cato Institute found only members of the far left felt free to express their political opinions without fear of repercussions. In a national survey of two thousand Americans, Cato found that “62 percent of Americans say the political climate these days prevents them from saying what they believe because others might find it offensive.” Further, the fear of what will happen if you speak up is nonpartisan, as “majorities of Democrats (52 percent), Independents (59 percent), and Republicans (77 percent) all agree they have political views they are afraid to share . . . large majorities or near majorities of people across race, sex, and income all feel like they can’t say what they believe. That means this effect is not simply concentrated in one identity group, but pervasive across all.”19
Most Americans, including Democrats, don’t want what progressives are selling. The left has been able to capture control of the Democratic Party because the classical liberals in that party are conditioned by the environment of fear as much as everyone else. And perhaps they were taken by surprise. That’s what gaslighting will do to you. Being afraid to speak up allows bullies and thugs to prevail. Self-censorship is not necessarily due to the fear of offending, per se; our history is one of great debate and new ideas. But being canceled—losing one’s job or becoming a target of threats and violence—is a steep new price to pay.
We are inundated with slogans and indoctrinated with the Marxist doublespeak of the new woke ideology, as illustrated by the cancerous spread of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in schools, government, and the private sector. Propaganda in schools and the left-wing media targets us and our children, weaponizing social issues involving sex and race to deliberately cause a cleaving of children from their parents.
The left’s deception is designed to inculcate all of us with lies meant to destroy our trust in ourselves, our families, and communities. The goal of all this is to further social divisions, paranoia, and ultimately a retreat from social and political life. The worst case has already been glimpsed, as riots, mob violence, arson, racist hate crimes, and open support of terrorism against the Jewish people are a few examples of the destruction of our social fabric.
Make no mistake—what we are all experiencing isn’t a “new normal” or the result of some natural process that mysteriously creates this chaos. We are experiencing the Marxist agenda in full swing. For the past several years, the average American has been fed a pack of leftist lies, including false claims that:
All white people, our system of government, schools, capitalism, and all other aspects of American society are—and always will be—systemically and irredeemably racist.
Concerned and politically active parents who support conservative values and causes are “threats to democracy” and domestic terrorists. Agents of the state are better able than parents to raise children.
The Russian government was so desperate for Trump to be president that they tried to fix the 2016 election and planted a fake Hunter Biden laptop in 2020.
Rioting, looting, and burning down businesses, homes, and government offices in American cities by social justice warriors qualifies as “mostly peaceful protests.”
Looting is reparations for the oppressed.
