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As a young man in the 1960s, I worked with others of my generation to enhance American democracy. Back then, we engaged in nonviolent actions to end racial segregation in America. These activities included sit-ins to integrate public facilities, freedom rides to desegregate public transportation, and voter registration drives to end disenfranchisement.
In the process, we willingly and peacefully accepted punishment for breaking existing laws with which we disagreed—laws that typically authorized segregation. Many of us were trained in methods of nonviolent resistance, both physically and psychologically. Subsequently, we worked to change the very laws we opposed, either through litigation or legislatively, thereby assuring equal opportunities for all.
By contrast, the agitators of the last decade want only to destroy property, hurt people, and seek to dismantle government itself. As an example, these agitators converted peaceful protests about George Floyd’s death (protected by the First Amendment) into acts of violence through vandalism, riots, and looting. Instead of peacefully submitting to law enforcement for their law-breaking actions, these trespassers resisted police, demanded their defunding, and appeared determined to tear down the essential fabric of America’s institutions. Rather than nonviolence being their guiding star, they foment anarchy.
As a mature person in 2025, I and others of my generation recognize how these efforts by so-called progressives (more appropriately called radical leftists) destabilize American democracy. We are heartened, however, by the Trump administration’s executive orders, administrative responses, and legal actions. They seek to restore traditional American values and overcome so-called wokeism within our culture.
Regrettably, governmental supporters (mayors, governors, and local legislative bodies) in so-called progressive cities and states, as well as the majority of the mainstream media, either tacitly endorse or explicitly approve such destructive non-peaceful actions. They excuse or coddle these lawbreakers and embolden them. Numerous local governments order law enforcement agencies to stand idle and avoid engaging these forces of destruction. The net effect permits these cancel culture warriors to create a situation of domestic terror as they loot stores, obliterate historical statues, burn our flag, destroy buildings, and attack churches and synagogues.
These officials submit to a rule by mob rather than uphold the rule of law because they either are unaware of the radical elements embedded within these protests or simply don’t care.
Thankfully, today’s federal government takes a different view toward those engaging in acts of violence. President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and federal law enforcement agencies are committed to prosecuting violators. For example, 10 people were charged in July for organizing an attack on unarmed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and local police after engaging in a military-style ambush.
On July 19, the FBI arrested a Cincinnati man after he allegedly made online threats to shoot and kill ICE officers. Among his several posts, he articulated a desire to “#Destroy ICE they’re rabid dogs that need to be put down. … ” and made clear that he is “shooting for the kill” because “#RevolutionIsTheSolution.”
This attitude, reflective of hundreds of similar statements by radical leftists, reflects a previously discredited Marxist-Leninist ideology. We were warned however by someone in a position to know how such thinking could ultimately infiltrate America.
In a TV interview 40 years ago, former KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (who had earlier defected to the West) explained the plan of committed Marxists-Leninists to gradually subvert America’s political system.
Prior thereto, Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and its premier from 1958 to 1964, prophesied that communism would eventually take over America without firing a shot. How? By pitting us against one another, that is, blue states against red states, blacks against whites, poor against rich, and the nonreligious against the religious. --->READ MORE HERE
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