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Many Americans see that law enforcement and the justice system in America have devolved into a state resembling the procedures and protocols of banana republics.
Yuri Bezmenov decided he wanted out of the KGB and the Soviet system some 56 years ago while serving in New Delhi, India. Disguising himself as an American hippie, he defected to the U.S. Embassy and debriefed with the CIA.
It was decided that Bezmenov should settle in Canada under a new name for a while. Bezmenov came back to the U.S. in 1980 with a mission to educate people about Soviet “ideological subversion,” which is the basic systematic methodology communists use to take down countries and establish Marxist-Leninist socialist-type states.
More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) Demoralization, 2) Destabilization, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture in the U.S., which, she says, will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.
Demoralization
In Bezmenov’s analysis, the first stage, demoralization, can take a generation or more. One of its main thrusts is to undermine the Judeo-Christian beliefs, customs, habits, and traditions that have been foundational to America; these parallel the “Four Olds” that Mao destroyed in China.
Included in customs and traditions is the destruction of the family, which communists want to replace with the state. Xi Van Fleet points out that just as the Chinese Cultural Revolution turned children against their parents, American families are under increasing attack. Government welfare programs that reward single mothers with more money by having more children have certainly undermined traditional family formation. Public schools, the medical establishment, and popular culture, which support the transgender movement have also turned children against their parents.
A third demoralization strategy is breaking people’s loyalty and love for their country by rewriting history, denigrating founders and national heroes, and destroying historic monuments — again, one of key “Four Olds.” In summary, the goal of demoralization is to disconnect people from the virtue of the past and render them unable to assess what is true.
Bezmenov argued that demoralization was the most important and hardest-to-reverse stage, since it targeted how a population interprets reality itself rather than any single institution.
Destabilization
According to Bezmenov, the second stage, destabilization, which builds on the first stage, is to advance society’s disorientation, a condition wherein the masses feel bewildered and powerless. While intentionality has never been proven, the China-originated COVID-19 brought massive destabilization and disorientation in the U.S. with mandated masking, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, mass vaccination, and the abandonment of tried-and-true medical practices, such as quarantining only the sick, and recommending the use of proven preventive and therapeutic treatments.
Another important part of destabilization happened early in the COVID crisis after the death of George Floyd. Narratives of systemic racism in law enforcement were used to trigger rioting, looting, and the destruction of several billion dollars’ worth of property, along with the tearing down of historic statues and memorials in many cities across the United States.
Americans became further destabilized when they realized government authorities were unable or unwilling to do anything about the destruction in big cities across America. There were few arrests while more than 2,000 police officers were injured. Destabilization may have reached its peak when cities with the most lawlessness, such as Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, initiated efforts to defund local law enforcement.
full story at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/how-the-left-naturalizes-sedition/