The Dumbing and Numbing of America: Destroying a Democratic Republic

By Sammy Lee Gott

The United States is broken in a political, economic, and emotional way to where we can no longer pretend that nothing isn't wrong with our way of life.

From corrupt corporations to drug abuse, to the decline of our education system, and beyond... A myriad of political and social decisions has dominated the toppling of our great nation.

'The Dumbing and Numbing of America' voices the concerns of one American veteran who has experienced over seventy years of living in this great country. Author Sammy Lee Gott was born and raised in America. He has fought for this great nation in war. He is a married, family man with a Christian upbringing who shares his views on what went wrong and how we can make America whole again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sammy Lee Gott
• Release date: Oct 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781948997799

Sammy Lee Gott

Author Sammy Lee Gott is a devoted brother, husband, and father. He's a veteran and a survivor of a dysfunctional family. He's an all around good guy with some great words of wisdom to share with the world.

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First Things First

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville , Florida , when he said America will not come back. He wrote:

"The American dream ended. The first term of Joe Biden has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.

A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the forever needy, the chronically unemployed that do not want to work , illegal aliens and other fellow travelers have ended...Norman Rockwell's America. You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status. People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired. The Cocker Spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard, the American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet and have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order. The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told. Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness…"

Let’s get some basics down first. One has to understand what the terms capitalism, socialism, and radical mean. One also must understand the playbook that radicals play by. Pay special attention to Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals and Saul Alinsky’s eight levels of control, How to Create a Socialist State.

Definition of capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

Socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies.

Radical adjective: believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social, economic, or political change.

Saul Ainsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals

RULE 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power is derived from 2 main sources — money and people. Have-Nots must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

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RULE 2: Never go outside the expertise of your people.

It results in confusion, fear, and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the real issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

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RULE 3: Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

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RULE 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

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RULE 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude, and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

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RULE 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different than any other human being. We all avoid not fun activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

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RULE 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

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RULE 8: Keep the pressure on. Never let up.

Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

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RULE 9: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

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RULE 10: If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side).

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RULE 11: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

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RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

HOW TO CREATE A SOCIALIST STATE by Saul Alinsky

There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist state. The first is the most important.

Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.

Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.

Gun Control - Remove people’s ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.

Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (food, housing and income).

Education - Take control of what people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school. Think: Common Core.

Religion - Remove the belief in God from the government and schools.

Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with support of the poor.

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Throughout this book one will see these rules and levels of control used to destroy our democratic Republic. I have tried to put the events chronologically so one can see the progression of events i.e., starting with wars.

Credits

Bolen Report

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Politics - Tried and true rules for creating meaningful social change

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The above sources are heavily referenced, often directly quoted and provide further reading for anyone wanting to do a deeper analysis.

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Wars in My Lifetime

Istart this book off writing about the wars that the US fought just in my lifetime and all the damage that they have done to the men in our country. When we think of war, one thinks of the people who died in them but dying is just one of the ways a life is ruined. The millions of men who came back from these wars that were wounded, maimed, or had PTSD, affected not only them but their wives, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandchildren and the people that they associated with in their