It Could Happen Here Without a Single Shot Being Fired
Americans are too sure of it being unable to be taken over
Civil rights activist Ruby Sales and the late Soviet ruler Nikita Khrushchev have something in common: they both observed that major social and political change can come without a single shot being fired.
Sales, who was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 60s, once shared with me, “All that we got done, we got done without a single shot being fired.” Indeed, the strategy of nonviolent direct action, though controversial and criticized by many, managed to draw attention to the violence committed against a group of people who merely wanted segregation to end and for African Americans to have their right to vote protected.
The result of their work, their countless marches and sit-ins, was the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Their commitment to nonviolence did not mean that there was no violence; people were attacked by angry whites with law enforcement doing little to nothing to stop or to punish it, but the violence came primarily from “the other side, “ not the foot soldiers on the ground fighting for white oppression of Black people in this country to end.
Khrushchev was on a mission for change as well as the Civil Rights activists. Russia wanted to take America down and by so doing, regain its recognition and status as a major world power, which it felt it lost following the two World Wars. Their losses did not silence them, but made them more determined to regain what they lost, and to take down the United States in their quest to once again become a major world power.
Khrushchev made an eerily similar statement as did Sales. In a 1959 speech, he reportedly said that Russia would ultimately meet its goal. “We will take America without firing a shot,” he said. “We do not have to invade the United States. We will destroy you from within.” (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2018/07/16/letters-nikita-khrushchevs-chilling-prediction-we-will-take-america-without-firing-a-shot/)
While there has been some disagreement as to whether or not the now-deceased Soviet leader actually said those words, and in what context, it is clear that Putin is doing just as Khrushchev reportedly said would be done. Putin, as have other world leaders, identified long ago the basic, race and culture-based weaknesses of this country, and with the former president, gained an ally and a help-mate in this country to exploit those weaknesses and in the process, cause this country’s fragile infra-structure to crumble.
The invasion of this country by Russia has been a slow and ongoing work in progress – a strategic masterpiece as carefully planned as Project 2025 has been. The “invasion” by Russia continues, while the coup from within – with Russia encouraging the main players – continues. The Conservative Project 2025 agenda is being implemented according to plan, acting as would a tapeworm, eating the guts of this country slowly but regularly.
If there are shots fired, they will come first from the angry whites – who have historically used violence in the form of guns and destruction of property by fire as they have protested the presence and the progress made by non-white people, especially but not limited to African Americans. January 6 as a violent effort to overthrow the United States government might have failed – but not really – because the goal of destroying democracy is still on the table. Those who adhere to the most Conservative outlook do not believe in democracy; they believe it is bad for the country and always has been. They have no great love for “the least of these,” but rather, respect and pay homage to the most wealthy and work to get them in control and keep them in control. Domination of the people is absolutely necessary, they believe, for this country to run as they believe God wants it to run. (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/mrna-after-covid-19-blowing-up-trump-plaza-crokicurl-history-of-swear-words-and-more-1.5874120/how-a-conservative-christian-movement-became-an-important-part-of-trump-s-political-strategy-1.5874143)
In their “Presidential Transition Project, they proclaim that their goal is to “build now for a Conservative victory through policy, personnel and training. (https://www.project2025.org). What they want is for wealthy white men to control everyone and everything in this country – from who gets to speak and what they can say, to the books we are allowed to read and even the religion we practice as a nation. Mike Flynn, who for a short time was the national security advisor of this country for the former president, has not kept it a secret that “one religion” in this country is one of the goals of the MAGA movement. (https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/politics/michael-flynn-one-religion/index.html)
I do not criticize the Conservatives for developing a strategic plan; the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement did the same. Major political change does not come without a clear and conscientiously followed strategic plan.
What I do criticize, however, is major media not telling the full story of what is going on, seemingly willing to help the plan to kill America as we know proceed with as little opposition from them as possible. The major media does not emphasize of what a dangerous place we are as a nation. The majority of Americans do not believe that “it,” i.e., the overthrow of this government, could happen or if it is overthrown, that it will be bad for everyone – including those who seem enamored with the thought of a “strong man” government taking over.
It could happen here and it is happening here – right before our eyes – and it is happening and could finally happen in November depending on how many people vote and on how many states have secretaries of state that will verify the election results in their states. That last point should not be worrisome but it is – as several states have “election deniers” as secretaries of state and who would think it their patriotic duty to “save America from the libs.” (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/one-third-states-election-denier-governor-attorney-general-secretary/)
The overthrow could happen without a single shot being fired. That should be a sobering thought for everyone who loves and who fought for this country.