A Strategy for the Resilience of Our Republic, Constitution and Freedoms.
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Strategy for the Resilience of Our Republic, Constitution and Freedoms.
The Problem – a Real Existential Threat to Freedom –It is springtime, so what better time to plant a seed, to grow a new encompassing strategy to ensure the resiliency of our Republic, Constitution, and our Freedoms. We have a major problem in today’s America. It is truly an existential threat to our freedoms, constitution, and the great experiment of our republic. To address any problem, one must first define the problem.
The problem is we are in an ideological war, for absolute power - yet
conservatives believe it is just politics as usual. Many can detect the problem, but they wrongly
mistake the issues created by it are just the same old politics. They assume
that those who are driving a radical political ideology believe in our republic,
our freedoms, and our constitution. They assume the oath the radical and extreme
politicians took is sacred to them, that their intentions are well meaning, and
that in the end we will find a way to work together. And this is part of the problem, a major
part, because those assumptions are wrong. How do I know? When their plans are disrupted, they either
create or use a crisis to circumvent that disruption. President Trump disrupted
the establishment of both democrats and conservatives, and in doing so, he severely
disrupted the radical lefts intentions, and highlighted the naivete of the
conservatives who (deceived or complicit) did not understand how big the
problem had become.
So, what exactly is this problem, for which many are cognizant,
but not fully aware?
The problem is that we have been in a Cognitive War for a millennium
and more, a war that will continue well beyond our lifetimes. It is an age-old
ideological battle. In simple terms the Cognitive War is a war between those
who seek to advance tyranny, control, and subjugation versus those who seek to
advance freedom, humanity, and democracy. It is a war of ideas,
ideology, and narratives – enabled by varied means, methods, and measures – to
include at times violence, kinetics, and asymmetric warfare. It is a
war in which deception, deceit and dystopian views are crafted in a manner to
be passed off as the truth and fact. And it is a war that is
occurring globally and domestically.
The Cognitive War - Domestic and Global.
This Cognitive War has been ongoing for millennia and more. And once again, it is being fought in America. It is a war that occurs in the cognitive[1] domain. I have detailed several aspects of this problem in prior blogs[2] and editorials.[3] The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness of the ongoing Domestic Cognitive War. The objective of this paper is to put forth a strategy to counter and win the Domestic Cognitive War.
The current Domestic Cognitive War has been ongoing over the last sixteen decades – since the civil war. And over that time the radical left has greatly matured, learned now to maneuver, and has become extremely effective in advancing their efforts to usurp power, absolute power. And in doing so, to advance tyranny in ways that deceive real intent.
The focus of this paper is on inning and competing in the Domestic
Cognitive War. It is an extremely dangerous
war in which those who seek to maintain freedom, opportunity and democracy are
losing against the radical left. A few
of many examples include:
·
advancing a massive unconstitutional campaign of election voting
and ballot irregularities and fraud to successfully steal the 2020 election.
·
advancing extreme censorship by the majority of media outlets, and
concurrently their own propaganda or hiding facts to destroy people, their
businesses or preclude their ability to communicate ideas.
·
overtaking our education system, from grade school to universities,
and turning them into indoctrination centers
·
usurping the freedom of the press, to then abuse that privilege by
advancing a now near totally compromised and biased media as they push
propaganda in ways that China and Russia only wish.
·
misusing and fraudulent abuse of our national security apparatus to
pursue fraudulent investigations and a likely coup (without any accountability
to date) against a president.
·
applauding and enabling extremist violence and domestic terrorism by
left-wing fascist/Marxist groups Antifa and BLM - fully supported by leftists (domestic
terrorists’ enablers) in congress who also advocated intimidation, harassment, and
destruction of the livelihood of conservatives – yet a sleeping justice system.
·
increasing and open demonization, dehumanization, and character
assassination of over half of America as extreme and racist for their beliefs
in freedom, opportunity, and democracy
·
advancing efforts to end the Senate filibuster, stack the SCOTUS,
advance unverifiable mail in voting, adding liberal states like DC, and
confiscation measures for guns.
·
passing legislation burying America’s future generations in debt
solely to pay off the extreme mayors and governors while concurrently advancing
ever greater dependency on the government to sustain and grow an ever-expanding
plantation of dependency.
·
ignoring America’s laws to open our borders to millions of new
government dependents, despite multiple promises to protect our borders.
· advancing the propaganda that racism is a systemic issue with police or in society while ignoring the reality of real racism in the progressive left’s failure to address the several thousand black murders occurring over the last seven decades in their cities, the destruction of black families, and the expansion of black dependency on government.
The rest of this paper briefly
covers the radical lefts’ means and methods, expansion of control, proactive
use of narratives, tied to dogmatic unity while broadcasting intentions to gain
absolute power. The paper concludes with a path to compete and win the Cognitive
War by offering a four-point strategy that will be expanded upon in future
articles. If we fail to win the Domestic Cognitive War - secure our freedoms, constitution,
and republic - we fail the world.
Means and Methods - The means and methods being
used, have long roots, but were honed by the Bolsheviks, and then the Nazis and
subsequently refined over the last one-hundred years – since the 1918 Russian
Revolution, and the founding of the American Communist party. The Russians used
the same basic tactics throughout Eastern Europe to place an Iron Curtain
around their Soviet empire. They took
over the classrooms, the local police, the ministries of defense, justice and
interior and the national security organizations – slowly but surely – until
they held all the reins of power. In
parallel, they also took hold of all forms of media to control the narrative as
well. The fall of the Soviet Union and
subsequent velvet revolutions, and US dominance led Communist Russia, China,
and others to relook their head on approach to hegemony. They took stock of their tactics, their
allies, and put in action a long-term strategy to retake world dominance. Concurrently, the American left did the
same. They realized they needed to engage,
imbed, usurp, then dominate – and that’s exactly what they’ve done with a
long-term strategy that’s been in play since the late 1960’s.
The radical left has leveraged crises and deceit of advancing the
rights, privileges, and opportunities of individual groups, to divide and conquer.
They leverage the use of government power
when they have it to expand dependency, not advance opportunity. They advance their own amongst the
bureaucracy, to advance their control. And
they gradually subsume the key elements of true power – education, security,
and governance to not enable, but to subjugate.
We saw these tactics in the communist revolution and subsequent red curtain overcome eastern Europe, spreading world-wide to the Far East, Latin America, etc. And in the end, they enabled the sustained control by controlling. We saw this same type of growth in radicalism and extremism in 1918 with the Russian communist revolution, in 1930’s with the Social Democratic Party (aka Nazi party), in the 1960’s with similar extremes, and again today. It is persistent, pervasive, and prolonged – it is a Cognitive War.
The radical left uses a variety of means, methods and narratives that include identity politics to advance division, hate, and indoctrinate our grade school, high schools, colleges/universities, and concurrently subsume control of local city, state, and federal government levers of power – where they can.
Expanding Dependency & Control - For decades Conservatives have been outmaneuvered and outsmarted. The Civil Rights Act passed by Republicans is viewed as a win by Democrats. The social welfare policies that destroyed black American families are tactics used to place ever increasing numbers of all Americans on the radical left’s expanding plantation of dependency and concurrently use that dependency to bludgeon conservatives as racists if they try to change (provide real opportunity for the poor) the racist system. The left’s use of teachers’ unions and local elections to usurp the and warp education to indoctrinate in pre-schools, high schools, colleges is now near total. We see this today, as the unions and the left ignore the science, to control not enable students, parents and society while advancing the unions controls. The same with our local school, county, and governance boards. Then there is the media, once referred to as a “free press,” the fourth estate there to oversee the bureaucracy, which is now just a propaganda arm of the left.
To add to their means of control, the left opened our boarders every time they obtained power. They ignore the laws, and provided access to 20 million prior to Regan’s amnesty, and then 20-30 million post that amnesty. There are not just eleven million illegals, it is more like thirty-to-fifty million – as during the decades families have expanded while waiting in America for solution – and those born here are now dependent on the government – and US citizens. Actually, abridging your voting rights by enabling tens of millions of new voters via illegal means. Most Americans do not realize the impact – it equates to adding 30-to-50 new cities of 20,000 people, to each and every state of our union. Think about that for a moment. Look at your state and count the number of cities with 20,000 – and it will hopefully sink in as to how truly effective the radical left is in the ongoing Domestic Cognitive War. So, for the last four decades since Regan’s amnesty, the radical left expanded plantation of government dependency, with the illegals children now sustaining the lefts’ power and policies of dependency.
Lastly, let us not forget the national security apparatus, where over the decades, we saw the CIA constantly abuse leaks to destroy conservatives, and as the DNI was created – seeded miscreants deep into the apparatus such that we saw a nearly successful coup against our president. The same occurred in the Department of Justice, State and Defense, etc. as the left embedded their own across the Executive Branch - as the conservatives ignored reality. It took decades, but the left has truly succeeded in tilting an apolitical bureaucracy to an enabling bureaucracy.
Then came Trump, who not only upended the left’s establishment, but
he also upended the conservative’s appeasing establishment, and the deep state,
that then with the media, miscreants in the bureaucracy, etc. conducted an
extensive propaganda and disinformation campaign, outright fraud, and a coup to
unseat Trump. They stood ready with
their legions of BLM, Antifa and other domestic terrorists to torch America and
bring extreme levels of civil unrest when Trump was re-elected to disable his
second term. But they are smart, well
planned, with a strategy, that we saw executed in the chaos of the 2020 election. And they sealed that “win” by seizing and
controlling the narrative.
Controlling the Narrative - What is consistent in these efforts? A continued proactive effort to control the narrative, and drive others to react. The left uses that strategy effectively and did so on multiple fronts with a complicit and compliant biased media, army of educators to indoctrinate, and liars like Obama to deceive and hide their real intentions. Remember, Reid, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and others never denounced the radical left socialist communist goals and objectives, but only noted to their fellow democrats to not be so direct in stating their goals.
And that’s where Trump derailed their efforts temporarily. He used their same tactics against them by driving the narrative, the media gladly supporting as they thought he was a temporary anomaly. But Trump’s ability to not only proactively drive the narrative, push his opponents to react, and successfully connect with the average American was a surprise attack against left wing hegemony. And a massive threat, such that even before he was elected, they seeded the grounds with a fraudulent investigation, a massive deep state of left-wing miscreants, and igniting the biased media to counter. The left’s burrowing in, and seeding the miscreants throughout our national security organizations, were then used as a weapon to conduct a coup. The left used age-old tactics in usurping the power of government organizations to attack, investigate, undermine, assassinate the character of those opposing their efforts, etc. Now that the left is back in power, they will quickly bury evidence election fraud or subjugation by controlling the narrative, abusing the power of government, and extending their reach in unconstitutional ways.
Strategy of Dogmatic Unity - The
key point being, the left persisted and persevered in their efforts, using a
well thought out strategy, working in dogmatic unity (even when caught red
handed in their lies before, during and after the Stalinist show trials called
impeachment). The left succeeded in
controlling the narrative, outmaneuvering conservatives, and doing so using
extreme tactics like anarchy, looting, riots with tools like BLM, Antifa and
others. As we have seen, the left unites,
and closes ranks quickly, even for egregious abuses of power or extreme
measures. They are guided by a broad and encompassing strategy that follows
prior examples in history – whereby they have slowly gained access to and now
control critical pieces of our education, justice, national security, media,
and financial institutions. And if they cannot
control it, they undermine it. Hence, governance
from the local to federal level, education from pre-school to college
indoctrination, are gained by installing, inserting, and embedding “like”
minded leftists into the bureaucracy of education, the federal government,
judicial system, the legal system, our intelligence, and national security
apparatus, and in the last decade defense and other areas. The subtle take over remains unnoticed by
most, until they try to voice their concerns.
Broadcasting Intentions - The left through all of this constantly broadcast their intentions well ahead of time. The was exemplified well when they forecast the use of mail-in and other unconstitutional ballot measures. The drove a narrative that any efforts to fight those measures were racist, white supremist and disenfranchised minorities. While it may be hard to watch or read the biased media – they frequently telegraph their next move, narrative and actions. But typically, conservatives are focused on the tactical and therefore sit silent, as they are time and again caught flat footed. Nothing exemplifies this more than the 2020 election. America watched, as the most fraudulent election in American history, was staged in front of our eyes. Conservatives watched in horror as the number of irregularities soared. They sat disbelief, as they were outmaneuvered yet once again in the dead of night. Then it was over. Since the left controlled the narrative, the media, and the radicals – and time was short – they knew it was over.
The left states their intentions publicly. Biden’s call to forcefully take your guns. Schumer’s call to “change America forever” by stacking States (adding Puerto Rico and DC as States) and the SCOTUS. Single payer healthcare, the green new deal, globalism, and multiple examples not to advance America, but to gain absolute power. Any student of Marxist, Soviet or Communist tactics can tell you the left employs age old and effective tactics – refining them for present day use. These include active and ongoing support for anarchy, looting, physical attacks on the unarmed by mobs, character assassination, misuse of our national security for a coup, ignoring laws to advance agendas, demeaning authority, misusing authority against the opposition, Stalinist show trials, etc. to usurp power. Detract, deflect, attack in a merciless manner.
What we witnessed in the last decades was America being effectively
manipulated by false narratives and fraudulent activities leading our Republic down
the path to a utopian world– but which in true form is more authoritarian mixed
with socialism and communism. The left drives
proactive narratives, causing conservatives into a fetal position and
perpetually reactive posture – a losing posture.
Seeking Absolute Power - We must understand this is a real war. It may not be kinetic – but it is just or more deadly. It is a war of ideas, blurred by fiction, pandering and misperceptions and well-planned propaganda campaigns executed in unison, but orchestrated by a few self-proclaimed elites, oligarchs of the left.
The bottom line - the left seeks absolute power at any cost to
control, dictate and subjugate a majority Americans to conform to a view of a
tyrannical and ever increasingly violent and dictatorial minority that seeks to
subjugate, control, create dependency and dictate the values and norms of
America to enable opportunity, independence, and freedom. The shining light called America is dimming,
as many try to turn the lights off on democracy and our republic.
Stopping Tyranny - So how do we compete in such
a weakened position? How do we stop our
slide towards communism? How do we stop
the radical left from gaining absolute power? And how do we move from a
perpetually reactive posture to proactive posture and seize the all-important
narrative?
It starts with understanding of the problem, means and methods, and success of the left and realizing that we are in an ideological war, a Cognitive War, that requires not band-aids or short-term fixes, but a well thought out, long-term strategy to ensure the resiliency, freedom and survival of our Republic, our Constitution, our freedoms, and our independence.
It is an effort that must leverage what political power we can
wield, but not relying on that. As such,
it must be a grass roots effort that leverages the real power in our country,
the power of the people. Nearly eighty
million plus Americans stand ready. We must advance a positive, proactive
narrative, via well planned engagements of the people, at all levels to broaden
our tent further – using facts, peaceful demonstrations, and peaceful but
forceful, persistent engagement at all levels of society. And we must stand ready to compete and
highlight the false narratives of the left and their messengers in a manner
which disrupts their narrative and causes them to react.
An Army of One, Some and None - Trump’s efforts no matter how effective, remained a challenge, as he in many cases had few allies in fighting an army. I honestly believe he didn’t realize the full scope and scale of the ongoing Domestic Cognitive War, despite the coup attempt, until he witnessed not only the scale of violence and tyranny from domestic terrorists across a 140 US cities, but the massive efforts to tilt the election to his opponent via varied unconstitutional, fraudulent, and other active measures in the 2020 election to include his being censored and removed from Twitter and the onslaught of censorship that silenced half of America.
The shock wave from the ChinaFlu (covid), the election, and the immediate and radial policies and legislation being put forth by the “installed” administration – speak to the magnitude of the Cognitive War and the reality that this problem is truly an existential threat.
No one knew the magnitude of this problem. As such, the establishment on both sides of the isle continued to engage in what they were comfortable with, day to day politics. Most conservatives sat idle, or worse began fighting the new administration, as the old and weak establishment members did not see the left’s unified insurgency being trained to drive massive civil unrest and anarchy should Trump win a second term. Rather than understand this existential threat, conservatives’ broke ranks, the establishment attacked viciously with their ‘civil language’ and morality via existing but useless think tanks and conservative bastions. Although Trump advanced conservative causes more than any or all combined, many establishment conservatives sat idle in their ivory towers, noses up, waiting for a ‘civil’ discourse with the radical left. The did not appreciate it will never come. As Lenin noted, these are the useful idiots who pontificated on high, while our schools, universities, national security apparatus, etc. were overtaken by a left leaning set of ideologues.
What most conservatives never learned, is that this is not a simple political battle, it is a blood sport for absolute power. So, in my opinion, their so-called “morality” and false hope for civil discourse not only sucks but reflects their cognitive dissonance. They failed their oath and our nation.
To compete and win this Domestic Cognitive War requires a legion of many, united in advancing a real long-term a strategy that drives our adversaries to react, throw them off their strategy and game, and drive a truthful and factual set of narratives to educate, inform and advance awareness to ensure our republic, constitution, and freedoms.
As we stand today, we are losing this war badly, as our republic,
freedoms and constitution are being undermined, subverted, and destroyed. We are being constantly outmaneuvered by
false narratives of the radical left, who continues to put forth disinformation
and propaganda campaigns, policies, and active measures to undermine our freedoms,
constitution, and republic. This
requires a renewed effort to fight for the shining light on the hill, not just
for Americans, but for the free world.
It requires we stop the insanity, of doing the same we have been and expecting
a different outcome. It requires the
silent majority to speak, to act, to unify and engage via a common strategy
that is enduring, as future generations will be required to understand, compete
and win – as the Cognitive War is timeless.
It is a war between evil (tyranny and despots) and good (freedom, opportunity,
humanity).
Competing and Winning the Domestic Cognitive War
To compete and win this war requires a strategy, one that is truly
strategic in nature. As this is a perpetual, persistent, and timeless war it
requires a strategy that is encompassing.
And it requires a positive focus for tens of millions of Americans to advance
freedom, opportunity, and democracy by ensuring they are informed, empowering
them to use all their rights, and enabling the silent majority to act, vice
being intimidated or cancelled by the violent and extreme minority, to take back
their government, education, national security, and save our Republic.
A Four Point Strategy for Resilience, Freedom, and our Republic
·
Seize the Narrative – Drive
others to react. President Trump taught us how to fight, using proactive
actions and controlling key parts of the narrative to advance conservative
policies, gain public support, while causing others to react. He did so by effectively
using the radical lefts tactics against them. Trump’s ability to do so is why
they viewed him as such a great threat.
It is also why they censored him via social media and continue to seek ways
to preclude him from communicating to the public. Trump did the same against
China and Russia, and also used this approach to engage and advance real,
trusted but at times challenging relations with our allies – but which were highly
effective. While we can hopefully
leverage the key abilities and skills of Trump, to win this war requires that
we leverage and drive the proactive engagement of the tens of millions of Americans
(the silent majority) who believe in our republic, constitution, and freedoms
to actively engage in the battle of narratives.
·
Proactive & Positive Legislative
Agenda – To gain position, we must not only seize the narrative, advancing
truth, but drive real, valued policy and legislative solutions. We must drive
for real social justice and health care by leveraging our Senate and House
members to layout the facts during various hearings (nominations, legislative,
etc.) and to broadcast the facts using alternative means of communication,
available media, etc. We must begin to layout, display the facts, and hold
Democrats to account for their six plus decades of pandering, ignoring, and
implementing failed policies that have divided America, destroyed minority
families, denied minorities equal education or employment, advanced and widened
a new plantation of dependency across all races. The two key issues the
democrats believe they hold the upper hand on are social justice and healthcare.
But both are weak and losing positions if the right strategy is undertaken to
use their “strategy and narrative” to undermine their plans.
·
Overhaul National Security – We must
overhaul our old factory floor, with failing cultures and structures that
operate as “titanium cylinders of sub-excellence” to compete and win in the
cognitive domain – as the real battle is of ideas and ideology that pit tyranny
against freedom. If we fail to provide
the president additional tools in the cognitive domain, the default becomes the
kinetic hammer. And, as we have seen in
Afghanistan, where we have consistently won the kinetic war, we have also consistently
lost the Cognitive War. To avoid a major
kinetic war, we must overhaul our national security apparatus – moving it from the
industrial to information age – to compete with our adversaries in the cognitive
domain and win both the Domestic and Global Cognitive War. Being perpetually
reactive, playing solely defense, is a losing proposition. We have lost trillions
of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dead and dying, and tyranny is expanding
domestically and globally. Slow changes
on the fringes are not adequate – we must drive rapid, disruptive change before
we are surprised yet once again. This requires an immediate overhaul the old
factory floor[4],
advancing new integrated whole of government functionality, and ensuring the president
has more options than kinetics. As we
overhaul the national security apparatus, we must ensure a truly apolitical
bureaucracy (not a legion of passive aggressive unelected obstructionist
bureaucrats) that serves every president with consistent apolitical
professionalism.
·
Ensure the Resiliency of our Republic, Constitution
and Freedoms – Long-term resiliency requires grass root efforts that include bringing
civics 101 back into our classrooms from pre-school, through high-school and including
our universities. When I hear one in four Americans can name all three branches
of government – we have lost not only an understanding of America’s basic governance
– but along with it, the ability to understand how to engage peacefully in
advancing ideas, policy, freedoms, American values, and how to preclude and
defeat the ills of communism in order to advance the benefits of our republic
and democracy. We must undertake a
massive grass roots effort and scale activities to reinforce those values and retake
our education system, colleges, local governance, state, and federal offices
via a massive grass roots insurgency, legislative action (including outlawing
socialism and communism) by leveraging the energy and voices of the silent
majority. This requires perpetual hearings focused on exposing the election fraud,
identifying secure solutions, and delegitimizing those elected using such
tactics. Actions such a proposing to outlaw socialism and communism drive a
proactive narrative – one that requires the radical left to react, defend and explain
why they would not support restricting bankrupt, murderous and tyrannical
ideologies.
Strategic, Proactive, and Resilient - In short, we must leverage a strategy that is strategic in nature (50-100 years), perpetually proactive, one that causes others to react to our efforts using means, methods and tactics borrowed from our left-wing adversaries while creating new capabilities, capacity, and redundancy at every level of effort, communications, and engagement.
We must realize this is not normal politics, but a true ideological war between tyranny and freedom. A war being fought, both domestically and globally, against radical leftists which seek absolute power to subjugate the majority to the will of the minority.
If we fail to adjust our strategy, if we fail to driver others to react, and if we fail to hold to account the failed policies, false narratives, abuse of our national security system, or fraudulent elections – then we will fail the millions who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
Freedom
is not free. Ignoring the ongoing cognitive war between tyranny and freedom –
ignores history, reality, and will result in the death of democracy, our republic,
and our constitution. These examples are
but the tip of a massive, proactive, asymmetric campaign that must be supported
and undertaken by all conservatives – as a united force. This strategy is a call to arms, and a call
to action, to ensure overmatch for freedom, drive a proactive narrative of
resiliency for freedom, our republic and constitution.
© 2021, All Rights Reserved, Edward L Haugland
[1]
Cognition
is defined as ‘the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and
understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.’ What
Is Cognition & Cognitive Behaviour - Cambridge Cognition | Cambridge
Cognition
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