00:01:12.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:20.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:52.000But there's also a sense of confusion.
00:01:56.000Because when I travel and I talk to the American grassroots about what's happening in America, the consensus I receive is, Charlie, why are we doing this to ourselves?
00:02:05.000Why does it seem as if this entire destruction of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, the most wealthy nation ever to exist, the most generous, benevolent, charitable, entrepreneurial, productive nation has decided to stop being those things?
00:02:24.000Why are we deciding to end the prosperity?
00:02:28.000Why are we making a conscious series of decisions to go a different direction?
00:02:36.000We're going to talk about inflation, but we're going to weave all of the news of the day into a strategy that used to be considered to be a military strategy as to how and why our republic is slipping out of our grasp.
00:02:53.000The best explanation could be a metaphor called the fifth column.
00:02:59.000The fifth column describes ancient warfare strategies.
00:03:05.000When ancient armies used to go invade a city or go to war, they would have four columns in the battlefield, four columns of soldiers, a two-by-two formation.
00:03:17.000But the most wise generals and the ones that were most likely to win in warfare were ones that had a fifth column that was not seen on the battlefield.
00:03:30.000The fifth column wouldn't be the four by four.
00:03:34.000The fifth column consisted of spies, infiltrators, defectors within the city gates of the city they were trying to infiltrate and invade.
00:03:46.000You see, this idea of the fifth column is asymmetrical warfare.
00:03:52.000It is trying to Change the hearts and minds of a nation or a civilization before you ever try to reach the waters, the beaches, or try to actually get into the country you're trying to penetrate.
00:04:09.000This idea of the fifth column was actually used by Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon.
00:04:15.000It's actually where we get the phrase from.
00:04:19.000Actually, Ernest Hemingway wrote a book in 1938 called The Fifth Column.
00:04:23.000In the Spanish Civil War, this tactic was used.
00:04:27.000But essentially, it's that it's not as important as to what you think you are seeing.
00:04:32.000It's that there might be something underneath trying to infiltrate, start fires, sow division, trying to rip apart the fabric of your nation and your civilization.
00:04:47.000This is what needs to be your primary focus.
00:04:50.000This is what needs to be your primary concern.
00:04:54.000The fifth column, as we see it in America today, as I read out of Bill Federer's phenomenal book, Socialism, The Real History from Plato to Present, is what is defining the decisions that are being made in our nation.
00:05:09.000Cicero, one-year Roman consul and one of the smartest men ever to live, said the following: A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within.
00:05:24.000An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city.
00:05:31.000But the traitor moves among those within the gates, freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
00:05:44.000He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a society.
00:05:50.000He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
00:05:56.000A murderer is to be less feared than an infiltrator from within.
00:06:03.000Now, this psychological warfare tactic of being able to infiltrate a nation or a society is nothing new.
00:06:11.000In fact, our government used this in other countries and has used this for many other countries, in many other countries.
00:06:19.000You look at the KGB tactics of what they did to many Western nations.
00:06:25.000It should be no surprise that instead of trying to invade America, to try to drop bombs or drop missiles on our republic, that it was much more prudent for them to infiltrate, to wait, to indoctrinate, to take over the educational institutions.
00:06:42.000Eisenhower said to Congress in February 2nd, 1953: no single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by communist aggression from without and subversion within.
00:06:57.000What we have to recognize and realize is that the great threat to America is not Vladimir Putin, even though Putin is a war criminal and a scumbag and all this stuff.
00:07:05.000The great threat to America can be said as China.
00:07:09.000China has done a lot of infiltrating of our nation, but instead it is the American left.
00:07:15.000The American left has gone on a multi-decade, multi-generational patient campaign to go through the deliberate steps to break the back of our morale, to demoralize us, and almost with just incredible precision following the actual KGB playbook itself.
00:07:35.000How do we know what the KGB playbook is?
00:07:38.000Well, as we talk about this idea of the fifth column and how it has been an insurgency against our republic, we were able to learn for a short period of time before he died from a KGB defector who was actually stationed in India and defected to the U.S. Embassy in Greece and then eventually found political asylum in Canada, a guy by the name of Yuri Bezmanov.
00:08:01.000We've talked about Yuri Bezmanov before in our program, but it's somebody that every single American patriot needs to be aware of.
00:08:08.000If you are a grassroots mom or dad or a student and you're wondering, where is our country going?
00:08:20.000The introduction of the ideas, the tactics, the strategy of Yuri Bezmanov clarifies it perfectly.
00:08:27.000You see, Yuri Bezmanov, being a defector, was actually an effective infiltrator for the KGB in other nations.
00:08:36.000The KGB being the secret police force of the USSR, the Soviet, the Soviet Socialist Republic states, they understood that they were not ever going to break America through a mass amphibious invasion.
00:08:52.000They were not going to break America through a bombing campaign or a blitzkrieg.
00:08:59.000The will of the American people were too resilient.
00:09:02.000Instead, a not so subtle but strategic drip campaign through the 60s and 70s.
00:09:10.000First, they must make you feel as if there is no truth and there is no right or wrong.
00:09:13.000The sexual revolution was largely the conduit for that.
00:09:17.000The free love campaign, the mass distribution of psychedelics.
00:09:23.000In the 70s and 80s, the infiltration of the academies took place, where most conservative-minded people went and bought and ran and went into business, bought into business, ran businesses, started their own businesses.
00:09:40.000Where the cultural Marxists embarked on a campaign to go after your children.
00:09:48.000We're going to talk about how this fifth column was formed.
00:09:51.000The fifth column being the military operation, the metaphorical military operation from within our own nation.
00:09:59.000Lincoln knew this too, America's greatest president.
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00:11:54.000We learned more from Yuri Bezmanov in a short period of time than we could through decades of research into the KGB.
00:12:02.000He was a Soviet journalist, and he unfortunately died in 1993 in Canada, but we have plenty of his teachings on camera, his revelations of who is the KGB, what is the USSR trying to do.
00:12:18.000Now, what he was able to articulate is a four-part process that a fifth-column type insurgency would execute.
00:12:30.000He said this is a playbook that is used by the KGB and yes, even by the CIA in many countries.
00:12:37.000You might hear the term color revolution.
00:12:40.000You might hear the term kind of counterinsurgency.
00:13:18.000Well, Karl Marx was an author alongside of his friend Engels, who made some very serious arguments, observations.
00:13:29.000Some of what Marx talked about was totally true.
00:13:32.000Some of it was complete and total garbage.
00:13:34.000And some of it was so evil, you could just say it's from the pit of hell.
00:13:38.000He believed religion was the opiate of the masses.
00:13:40.000He believed human beings were naturally good.
00:13:42.000He believed that private property was a moral stain on humanity.
00:13:47.000He believed that capitalism at its core was about exploitation and oppression.
00:13:53.000Now, some of the things he did talk about that were true was that in markets, competent people are going to raise to the top of the competency hierarchy, and they're going to be able, they're going to dominate and keep a lot of the goods and services for themselves, and that certain people are going to do better.
00:14:13.000He basically was talking about the inequality of the distributions.
00:14:17.000Inequality of distributions is what Marx would talk about.
00:14:21.000He took that idea and then extrapolated it into such venomous prescriptions for public policy.
00:14:28.000So, stage one, according to Yuri Bezmanov, is you must demoralize a nation.
00:14:35.000He argued that it would take 15 to 20 years to properly demoralize a country.
00:14:44.000Because that is the minimum amount of years required to educate an entire generation of students.
00:14:52.000In my personal opinion, the clock started right near George W. Bush's election.
00:14:59.000I believe the clock for ideological subversion.
00:15:03.000Yes, of course, it started with the Marxists getting ready for their four-part process.
00:15:07.000My personal theory is that this four-part process, as far as the years as how specific Yuri Bezmanov was of how communists overtake a country, started right near year 2000.
00:15:20.000In year 2000, you started to see the diversity is our strength campaign.
00:15:24.000You started to see equality for all, silence is violence.
00:15:29.000You started to see an accelerated pace of some of these insurgency movements.
00:15:35.000And so, what you see is a multi-pronged process that then unfolds.
00:15:43.000Now, Yuri Bezmanov talks about this as a model that then can be implemented at any period of time.
00:15:50.000He was not talking about a specific period of time.
00:15:54.000What he wanted to do, and what the KGB would want to do, and what a communist infiltration would want to do, is to expose a citizenry to these Marxist ideas that truth could no longer be deciphered.
00:16:10.000So, the first stage is mass demoralization.
00:16:15.000Now, they tried this in the 60s and 70s, but it was not successful for a couple reasons.
00:16:22.000But in the year 2000, demoralization through public education, the cartel of the colleges, the advent of the total manipulation and takeover of mass media, all of a sudden, this goal by the Marxists, the cultural Marxists, started to become more successful.
00:16:40.000They got a president elected in 2008 with Barack Hussein Obama.
00:16:45.000And then in 2012, 2016, all of a sudden, they were at the precipice of what phase two would be.
00:16:54.000Phase two would require a mass destabilization event.
00:16:57.000I wonder, have we lived through a mass destabilization event recently?
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00:18:30.000Ideological subversion is the slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, activi mirpriatia, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare.
00:18:44.000What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
00:19:06.000That is otherwise known as gaslighting.
00:19:08.000I want you to, I want to re-emphasize something you said.
00:20:51.000Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy.
00:21:05.000In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.
00:21:19.000Now, mind you, this was back in the 50s and 60s.
00:21:21.000So what he's articulating is it's being pumped into the minds of American students, and then they become the professors who then teach your children and grandchildren these ideas.
00:21:35.000While many American families were attending church and building businesses, they were doing the work of infiltration.
00:21:44.000They were doing the work of taking over the institutions.
00:21:49.000Phase two, to take over a nation via the fifth column from within, is de-stabilization.
00:22:00.000Now, according to Yuri Bezmanov, destabilization only takes two to five years.
00:22:07.000I make the argument that the communists, the cultural Marxists, the postmodernists, the deconstructionists, the critical race theorists, the sexual anarchists, all these people in the 50s and 60s, they thought that the 80s was going to be their watershed moment.
00:22:26.000My personal opinion is that they tried their best to break the nation, and they thought they were going to have it with Jimmy Carter.
00:22:35.000They thought they were going to have mass destabilization, what they called stagflation, in the late 1970s.
00:22:41.000And my personal opinion is Reagan reset the clock.
00:22:45.000I think Reagan's greatest contribution to America was not economic policy, but it was a resurgence of morale and patriotism and an agreement that the American family matters, that our history is worthy of appreciation, and an unapologetic defense of the American experiment.
00:23:05.000Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election achieved one of the great landslides in political history, let alone American political history, where he won every single state except Massachusetts, either Massachusetts or Minnesota.
00:24:18.000I believe that the Chinese Fauci coronavirus in 2020 was the beginning of the clock of their attempt to get stage two and three and four done.
00:24:32.000I believe that was their way to do the great reset and mass destabilization.
00:24:37.000Yuri Bezmanov continues in play cut 93.
00:24:41.000And you can see it quite clearly that in some areas, in such sensitive areas as defense and economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic.
00:24:56.000I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.
00:25:18.000It'd be like those of you that are committed Christians, and you would go into a country that you thought that was very secular or atheist, and you saw people all of a sudden saying, well, and the truth will set you free and crosses on windows and people talking about the gospel of Matthew.
00:25:33.000You would be, you're better attuned to kind of be like, well, that's interesting.
00:25:37.000And this country is a lot more Christian than I thought it was.
00:25:40.000The point is that when you have a trained eye of you're immersed in a specific philosophy, ideology, or religious belief or political belief, when you go into a new environment, you're going to be able to pinpoint that better than most.
00:25:53.000And that's the story of Yuri Bezmanov.
00:25:56.000I believe we are living through an attempted destabilization.
00:26:56.000I don't even know if the six weeks clock has started.
00:26:59.000But if you have the steps prior, the steps prior of demoralization, destabilization, and crisis, then what is the fourth step?
00:27:13.000The fourth step is what they call normalization.
00:27:16.000As the fifth column works within your nation, normalization is the one where they complete the cycle.
00:27:25.000Normalization is a very cynical expression, though.
00:27:28.000And it was borrowed actually from Soviet propaganda.
00:27:32.000When the Soviet tanks moved into then Czechoslovakia in 1968, Brezhnev said, now bother Czechoslovakia is, I'm sorry, now brother Czechoslovakia is normalized.
00:27:46.000If you allow them to destabilize, break your will, and have mass crisis, then they will, quote, normalize.
00:28:07.000Normalization is a cynical expression borrowed from Soviet propaganda.
00:28:11.000When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, Comrade Brezhnev said, Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized.
00:28:21.000This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis, to promise people all kinds of goodies and the paradise on earth, to destabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle of free market competition, and to put a big brother government in Washington, D.C., with benevolent dictators like Walter Mondale, who will promise lots of things,
00:28:49.000never mind whether the promises are fulfillable or not.
00:28:53.000He mentions Mondale by name, the very man that Reagan just ran into political oblivion, he being from Minnesota, which is one of the reasons that that was one of the only states Reagan didn't win.
00:29:04.000You are living through the four steps: demoralization, destabilization, attempted crisis, and eventually normalization.
00:29:15.000Cut 96, Yuri explains how leftists, such as professors and civil rights defenders, are instrumental.
00:29:22.000You sending your child to college is exactly what the Marxists want you to do.
00:29:29.000Your leftists in the United States, all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize the nation.
00:29:44.000When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore.
00:30:00.000They will be lined up against the wall and shot.
00:30:02.000They will be lined up against the wall and shot.
00:30:08.000Look, free speech, religious liberty, and the Second Amendment.
00:30:11.000Our rights are being destroyed across the board.
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00:31:16.000That money might as well be a check, Democrat, national committee, or you could have it go to Patriot Mobile, where they give their proceeds back to Turning Point USA, veterans, and amazing groups.
00:32:48.000This is why what we do at Turning Point USA, in my personal opinion, is one of the most important fights that we have on our hands right now to save Western civilization.
00:32:58.000It's a long-term fight, it's a fight for the heart and soul of the next generation.
00:33:04.000You're going to see some victories because of the educational movement we have at Turning Point USA.
00:33:10.000But long-term, that's really when you're going to start to see the fruit.
00:33:14.000And the Marxists, they've been far more patient than we have.
00:33:18.000They said for 60 years, maybe even longer than that, we're going to teach your children that truth is nothing more than a construct, that America is a colonialist, racist, homophobic country.
00:33:32.000Then they come into the destabilization, that they want to break down your economy.
00:33:39.000I believe that since the virus came to our shores and our incredibly inappropriate reaction to the virus, lockdowns, vaccines, empowering Anthony Fauci, who now has COVID, I have money that Anthony Fauci's going to take Iver Mecton to try to treat COVID.
00:33:59.000Ever since our reaction to COVID, not COVID itself, we have begun the process of destabilization.
00:34:07.000And you think about it, America is so strong and so wealthy, having us do this to ourselves is the only way this could have been possible.
00:34:19.000Yuri Bezmanov said in this quote that the only way and the basic purpose of subversion is to mess up the perception of reality in your enemy to such an extent that he does not perceive you as an enemy.
00:34:35.000And your system, your civilization, and your ambitions appear to him as an alternative.
00:34:42.000You cannot subvert an enemy who does not want to be subverted.
00:34:48.000He continues by saying, the highest art of warfare, the highest form that you can fight on, is not to fight at all, but to subvert anything of value in the country of your enemy until such time that the perception of reality of your enemy is messed up to such an extent, he cannot even tell your enemy.
00:35:11.000And then you could take your enemy without a single shot being fired.
00:35:16.000The fifth column, as Philip II of Macedon would call his secret weapon, is being deployed on us in America today.
00:35:32.000Means we must identify the insurgency.
00:35:36.000We must understand that we must build new institutions and know that the enemy is inside the gates.
00:35:44.000And yes, we must crush the insurgency, similar to what Ronald Reagan did in the 80s.
00:35:50.000But the sooner we recognize and realize that that fifth column is trying to debase our country, that this is not some sort of random occurrence of events, but it's being done to us by us, then victory becomes a lot more attainable.
00:36:07.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:08.000Email me your thoughts is always freedom at charliekirk.com.