Abortion, homosexuality, the coarsening of our kids, attacks on Judeo-Christian values, the movement to destroy marriage, the seemingly intentional dumbing down of our children, moral relativism.
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How is it that so much of what we once viewed as wrong is now perceived as right?
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America has been sold a bill of goods.
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It's not an accident. It's not chance. It's part of a deliberate plot – or, more precisely, a series of deliberate plots – to change the very character of America.
It's what my friend and colleague David Kupelian calls "The Marketing of Evil."
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Kupelian reveals in his book, for the first time, the secret meetings that took place, the conscious decisions that were made, the salesmanship that went into peddling craven, immoral ideas and feelings.
Many Americans understand the problems we face in our culture. But few understand how these problems became problems. They don't understand how slick marketing campaigns delivered them to our doorstep, to our schools, to our TV sets, to our radios, to our theaters and even into our churches and synagogues.
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The problem with knowing only half the story is that we don't know how to fight back against the seemingly relentless tide of evil. That's why this book is so important – why it is such a triumph.
The subtitle of the book is "How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom."
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Notice how this bill of goods is being packaged – as freedom.
I've come to the conclusion that we've been breaking down the forces at work in our society in the wrong categories. We talk about liberals vs. conservatives, Republicans vs. Democrats, left vs. right.
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There are better ways to explain the battle.
It is first and foremost a spiritual war that is raging in America and throughout the world. Christians and Jews – who formed an uneasy partnership to build Western Civilization and, ultimately, America – are under attack throughout the four corners of the world.
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While jihadists and totalitarian socialists imprison, beat and persecute us because we represent real freedom, here at home the attacks are more subtle, more clever.
Here, the battle is waged by those who love and cherish the American dream and those who resent it and want to transform it.
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The American experiment in freedom is under siege by domestic enemies who seek to change the very definition of America – slowly, surely, inexorably. It's on the fast track today. But the process started a long time ago.
Back in the early 1900s, an Italian communist by the name of Antonio Gramsci came up with an idea for achieving the goals of socialism without firing a shot. He suggested that fellow travelers should embark on a long march through the cultural institutions – subverting, changing their missions, taking them over. He believed that if socialist ideas permeated the most influential non-political aspects of society – education, the philanthropies, the entertainment industry, the press – that political power would literally fall into the laps of those who chose such a path.
Gramsci, whose work has been translated into dozens of languages, wrote that the most important task in this long-term plan for winning the hearts and minds of the people was to attack the notion that there is a sovereign God who endows His creatures with inalienable rights and who establishes absolute rules about right and wrong.
Can anyone doubt that the current state of the world is very much the legacy of Gramsci and others who shared his ideas? Can anyone doubt that the culture is the Ho Chi Minh trail to political power?
Just as spiritual war requires spiritual combat, cultural war requires cultural combat.
It's our duty then, those of us who believe in God – and the freedom and responsibility He represents – to begin a process of what I call "reverse Gramsciism." It's time to begin another long march through the cultural institutions. It's not enough to criticize those institutions. They need to be taken over, redeemed, reborn.
It's not a time for timidity or compromise. It's not a time for defensiveness and conciliation. It's time to take the offensive in this struggle.
The cultural institutions have paved the road to this destruction of true freedom. We must make a U-turn on that road and take those institutions back. Electing the best politicians will never be enough. To turn this country around, freedom-loving revolutionaries must reclaim Hollywood, the foundations, the schools, academia and, of course, the press.
David Kupelian's "The Marketing of Evil" is a marvelous, wondrous example of how we kick off this "reverse Gramsciism."
It exposes how we have been manipulated into accepting bondage disguised as freedom. And it points the way home.
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