In our book “We Didn’t Fight for Socialism,” we warn of the left’s overriding goal to control every aspect of our lives. The constitutional freedoms guaranteed all Americans are anathema to leftists. They want to control the government and use the government to control us. Their favorite tactic is fearmongering, creating panic and using it to convince Americans to give up their freedoms for the sake of security.
Rahm Emanuel, the quintessential leftist and chief of staff for President Barack Obama, made no secret of the socialist’s nefarious methods when he said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” The kinds of things Emanuel refers to include convincing naive citizens to surrender control of their lives to the government.
Emanuel was honest about the left’s methods if not their intentions. What he should have said but didn’t was: “If there is no crisis, invent one.” This is precisely what President Joe Biden and his leftist puppet masters did with the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous administration left the country in such good shape, Biden and the Democrats found themselves with no crisis to use for their scheming purposes. Lacking a legitimate crisis, Biden and “progressive” Democrats manufactured one.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the ideologues who control Biden the supposed “crisis” they needed to institute unconstitutional mask and vaccine mandates. Thankfully, the mandates are being challenged in court by Americans who value freedom more than a false sense of security offered by the government. Dissatisfied by creating unwarranted fear of the virus, the president and his cronies added losing one’s job for refusing vaccinations and being attacked as an “anti-vaccination neanderthal” to their list of threats.
Psychiatrist Mark McDonald, author of “United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to Mass Delusional Psychosis,” makes the following points about the vaccine mandates and the left’s ongoing efforts to gain complete control over individual Americans:
—The government and large corporations have for decades engaged in a systematic process of “grooming” Americans to be susceptible to irrational fears.
—Without fear, the government cannot rob individuals of their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
—The underlying intention of the left’s fearmongering is to create and nurture a sense of dependency on government.
If the Biden administration and far-left Democrats were interested in public health instead of government control, they would use encouragement, incentives, leadership and trustworthy data rather than fearmongering to increase the percentage of Americans who accept the vaccinations.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president in 1933, he inherited a nation gripped in fear because of the Great Depression. Banks were failing, tens of thousands of unemployed Americans stood daily in bread lines and the nation’s top investors faced financial ruin. In the middle of this real crisis, FDR uttered the most famous line of his four-term presidency: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Had Biden quoted his fellow Democrat president in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, his words would have been prophetic. Instead, he copied FDR’s actual response. In reacting to the depression, FDR ignored his own words and set the country on a course continuing to this day: respond to crises, real and imagined, by instituting new government programs and controls.
We give Benjamin Franklin the final word on surrendering freedom for the sake of security. In 1755, he and his colleagues in the Pennsylvania Assembly challenged the colony’s Biden-like, royal governor with these words: “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We agree.
Oliver L. North is a combat-decorated U.S. Marine, No.1 bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Fidelis Publishing LLC and Fidelis Media LLC. Find out more about him at www.olivernorth.com. David Goetsch is a Marine Corps veteran, member of the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame, professor of business, Christian counselor, and author of 77 books. Find out more about him at www.david-goetsch.com.
It isn’t so much a question of how—it is more like why are there so many obedient sheeple who refuse to think for themselves and push back.
This treasonous, dishonest, self-serving, socialist Democrat Party MUST keep the pandemic fear alive and well until at least after the November 2022 elections.
The Democrat Part must keep their ability to manipulate the elections by the unaccountable mail in voting, unmonitored vote drop boxes and allow ANYONE dead, alive, illegal immigrant to vote and as many times as they want.
Secular socialism is the religion of fear. Bear in mind nobody sacrifices their lives for Communism or socialism which is the edification of self into the position of self-god. Others like WE THE PEOPLE are just cannon fodder pawns to be sacrificed for the god of self, or pawn to finance in debt their faux edification. The Russians and Stalin very early found this out as the Germans marched up to the gates of Moscow capturing and killing a Russian army whose Self-God Stalin depleted officer corps was decimated by Stalin who feared every imagined knife about to be stabbed in well-earned his back. Even Stalin had to reopen the Russian Churches when the appeal to Mother Russia was not enough to convince people to give up their earthly lives with only the darkness awaiting of a secular deprived concept of an accountable afterlife. Many a fearful Russian defender was shot by his own commissar for not picking up the rifle of the fellow fearful foolish comrade given the choice to attack or be killed by his own officers on command of the Self-God Stalin. Over a million Russian soldiers defected to the west, the very place where their fears could be subsided in the concepts of American liberty and justice for all. Just who are these Democrat party American morons that want to bring back this ideology of fear? The organizers need to be hunted down rooted out and separated from influencing young American minds with their concepts of Self-god entitlement that offers no hope just fear.
BECAUSE they have been PROGRAMMED that way, via tv and schooling…
Fear? R u kidding me? lol Give me a break oh self exalted one. My courage comes from faith in God Almighty. Dailey Bible Study is a huge faith builder, try it. I feel like David when he faced Goliath (American government is my giant), who said:
1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
The left will learn the hard way that conservatives fear only God and they are so far from God that they make to difference to our lives. The left knows we are Gods people and no matter how much they steal from us, be it money or freedom they will NEVER! take our souls which is what they ( satans people) want.