Dana Mathewson

Received this from a friend. The source is unclear but this sounds awfully familiar:

Communist Rules for Revolution:

A. Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby:

1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics,
sexy books and plays and other trivialities.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping
on controversial matters of no importance.

3. Destroy the people’s faith in their leaders by holding them up to contempt,
ridicule and obliquity.

4. Always preach true democracy, but, seize’ power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit,
"produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders
and foster lenient and soft attitudes on the part of the government towards such disorders.

7. By specious argument, cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues of honesty,
sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word.

C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.

While the left-wing Snopes calls this a hoax and its origins probably are, the fact is that when this thing turned up in 946 in a Brisih publication called the New World News. The "rules" were allegedly published in the Bartlesville, Oklahoma Examiner-Enterprise in 1919, but no evidence of their existence has been found.

But so what? Clearly the creators of the "rules" were prescient about how the Left works this stuff, even if it didn't formally come from the Communist Party. It is the exact course Europe has taken and now the U.S.

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