We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.

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Political leaders in our post-literate society no longer need to be competent, sincere or honest. They only need to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a narrative. The reality of the narrative is irrelevant. It can be completely at odds with the facts. The consistency and emotional appeal of the story are paramount. The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. We ask to be indulged and entertained by clichés, stereotypes and mythic narratives that tell us we can be whomever we want to be, that we live in the greatest country on Earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities and that our glorious future is preordained, either because of our attributes as Americans or because we are blessed by God or both.

The ability to magnify these simple and childish lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives these lies the aura of an uncontested truth. We are repeatedly fed words or phrases like yes we can, maverick, change, pro-life, hope or war on terror. It feels good not to think. All we have to do is visualize what we want, believe in ourselves and summon those hidden inner resources, whether divine or national, that make the world conform to our desires. Reality is never an impediment to our advancement.

Read every word of it.

Yes, this was required learning in mandatory sessions held in the dorms.

The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

They stopped it, for now, but it just won’t die.

Even though school officials assured questioners a year ago that the indoctrination would be halted, officials with the university’s residential life department remain “entirely unrepentant” even to this day, according to today’s report from FIRE.

“Three times ResLife proposed essentially the same program for 2008-2009, and three times a faculty committee rejected it,” stated the report by FIRE’s Adam Kissel. “No one has apologized to the students for the pressure and shame, the invasion of privacy, or the other assaults on students’ freedom of conscience.”

But wait, it gets better. The Delaware program is a model for all colleges!

Most importantly, and disquietingly, the FIRE report exposes the extent to which the Delaware program was by no mean isolated - it was simply the most forceful implementation of explicitly political “educational outcomes” encouraged by the American College Personnel Association for all colleges. Once instituted, the Res Life system became, most egregiously, a model for the ACPA and other “res life” professionals.

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In that article, Kerr and Tweedy discuss their desired “learning goals,” which include requiring each student to, among other things, “explore societal privilege and the experiences of those disadvantaged in our democracy,” “explore social identity privilege,” and “explore class privilege.” They also—creepy as it sounds—discuss potential improvements to the program, such as “the possibility of identifying behavioral factors that can be observed and recorded by hall staff members.”

Remember Yuri?

A Missouri company has been fined $6,000 for not reporting a customer’s question to the federal government. The question that’s punished by law is: Are any of these products made in Israel, or made of Israeli materials?

MENA, AR—After an extensive three-month-long search, the Polk County Sheriff’s Department located missing 9-year-old Ethan Davis in an abandoned home, rescued the child from his captors, and returned him to his loving parents, the still bound and gagged boy imagined Tuesday.

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“I’m so happy to be free,” said a delirious Davis, the sound of his voice muffled by the sock stuffed deep inside his mouth. “I knew my mom and dad would never stop looking for me. I knew they would find me.”

“They said everything is going to be all better now,” continued Davis, disregarding strict orders from his captors to quiet down and stop moaning. “And nothing like what happened back there will ever happen to me again.”

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“We are bad men and we know that what we did was wrong, but we were afraid Ethan would beat us up if we untied him,” said Ed Jackson, a mental composite of the three men currently keeping watch over the severely dehydrated and hallucinating child. “Sorry, Ethan. Maybe you’d feel better if we gave you the gazillion dollars we took from your parents.”

“And the little pinkie finger you miss so much,” he added.

Davis’ imagination, once used to play with his G.I. Joe action figures, then conjured up one last fleeting daydream, in which the boy, seated at the dinner table, was surrounded by his mother and father, his little brother Henry, and a warm viscous fluid that kept pouring out of his mouth.

Yuri Bezmenov is a former KGB agent and an expert on ideological subversion. He discusses the slow process of demoralization that transformed America from a conservative and mostly homogeneous country into a socially-marxist and egalitarian one.

Interview conducted by Edward Griffin in 1984.

Pay attention about halfway through where he states that those who believe in the “noble ideas of equality” are in for a massive “psychological shock” when the U.S. becomes Communist/Stalinist, and will be among the first ones marked for execution because they will become the most passionate resistance against their “liberators”. He specifically mentions Jane Fonda.

It takes 15-20 years to demoralize a country… The results you can see: Most of the people who [grew up? unclear] in the sixties — dropouts or half-baked intellectuals — are now occupying the positions of power, in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system. You are stuck with them, you cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern… The process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.

There are nine parts to this interview, starting here:  Yuri Bezmenov Explains Soviet Strategy for Subversion

Confession: My dad tried to tell me this when I was about 14. I thought he was crazy. Sorry dad. And Renee’s said the same thing to me many times. I guess its just hard to accept. You can accept genocide in Nazi newsreels, but not in your own neighborhood.

Iowahawk speaks for me. That is all I have to say about this entire disgusting campaign.

Ok, one more thing: That a man who would ally himself with a radical racist, a radical racially-oriented “community organizer” group that perpetrates voter fraud, and terrorists who revel in the fact that they bombed the Pentagon and cheered Charles Manson, could get so close to the highest office in the land, swept along by breathless fainting crowds who lick up his BS like manna from heaven…

It just disgusts me.