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I’ve noticed across the blog sites I visit, whenever the topic of Tea Party protests comes up, the topic gets swarmed by the operatives from the other side. It means that Axelrod and Emanuel are watching this very closely and they have people who organize a lot of Leftists to post on the conservative sites. Clearly, this movement worries the Left and the White House. If we were irrelevant, they would not even bother with us. We would not even merit a second look.

There is an internal political war heating up inside our country. It has actually been building for decades, but since the late Eighties the Left has been gathering momentum and power. How do I know this? I used to be on the other side from 1977-1987. Towards the end of Reagan’s second term the Left was beginning to gain ground in the places where opinion and worldview are most shaped: in education and media. Even thought the elder Bush crushed Dukakis in ’88, you could see the ideas and terms of the debate shifting the other way. By the Nineties the Left had made an even larger jump. They had a setback in ’94, but have been slowly gaining more ground since.

Notice the most prominent Leftist on this thread has latched on to the two themes that resonate with the rank and file over on that side: anti-capitalism (grinding away at the corporations) and anti-war (and old standby for the Left). Being familiar with their stock and trade, it makes no impression at all on me; I used to be an academic Marxist, so I know pretty much all the contours of their psyche and their ideological landscape.

Yuri Bezmenov has given a battery of interviews (back in the early Eighties)which cover the gamut of how the KGB and its proxies operated in the West. The first stage of their work involved “demoralization” – which entails sowing doubt about the foundations and ideas of Western Civilization. Once you sow doubt there, a people are ripe for all manner of disinformation and propaganda. This stage has already run its course in the United States. The Marxists are way beyond that stage now. However, most of us here either were not exposed to this demoralization or were in fact exposed to it but have undergone journeys of the mind that have taken us way beyond its paralyzing effects and have come out the other end rejecting socialism.

The Tea Parties are a sign that there is still hope that we can defeat the socialists.