When I was growing up there seemed to be nothing the world could do to take down America. I remember Nikita Khrushchev saying that America would fall without firing a shot because we would fall from the inside. I began to see evidence of that in the late ‘60s with the mindset of my generation. I realized immediately that if they get their way they wouldn’t be able to protest the way they were. I couldn’t convince any of them of that simple logic. What I didn’t see at the time is it was the Democrat Party that was the big influence. JFK was still fresh in everybody’s mind as well as RFK and MLK.
I am reminded of a speech that JFK gave just days before he was assassinated in 1963. I had been hearing about this speech for decades without really listening to it. I had an understanding of it but I never really thought that our government would allow something like that to happen. Then I became a Republican and as Ronald Reagan said, my eyes were opened. Here is the speech by JFK just days before he died:
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society. And we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. But we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means ...
