Deliver U.S. from Evil
The leftists of now work like the leftists of then: Delegitimize → Destabilize → Dominate
Every generation believes it has invented moral virtue. Ours believes it can enforce it from Washington.
For decades, the Democrat Party has posed as the nation’s “conscience”; the guardian of equality, the defender of “our democracy,” the voice of compassion. The tragedy is that compassion has become its camouflage. Behind the language of inclusion sits a system of control that would look familiar to any student of the early twentieth‑century revolutionary movements: the same promises of liberation, the same contempt for limits, the same certainty that disagreement isn’t just wrong but evil.
The problem isn’t that Democrats hold different views. It’s that they approach politics as a permanent moral emergency. Every issue, climate, race, gender, and public health is framed as a battle between good and evil. When politics becomes theology, opposition becomes heresy. And once a moral crusade replaces debate, evidence, cost, and consequence no longer count. Salvation has no budget.
We saw that mindset during the pandemic when mayors shut churches but kept liquor stores open for “mental health.” We saw it after the riots in 2020 (BLM) and again in 2025 (DOGE-Tesla) when whole neighborhoods burned and officials called destruction an act of empathy. We still see it in the constant hunt for villains: police officers, parents at school boards, small business owners, anyone who challenges the Party’s monopoly on virtue.
That spirit mirrors the revolutionary zeal of the Bolsheviks a century ago. They too thought virtue justified coercion. Their speeches were full of moral absolutes, “enemies of the people,” “reactionaries,” “saviors of humanity.” Our language sounds smoother but works the same way. Where they shouted “For the workers,” we chant “For equity.” The slogans differ, the impulse doesn’t.
This isn’t coming from the fringes. It’s the institutional soul of the modern Democrat Party: the universities that train its activists, the bureaucracies that enforce its creed, the media that echo its message, and the corporate benefactors who underwrite its crusades while collecting privileged access to power. It’s a moral oligarchy convinced that if it says the right words, justice, inclusion, diversity, it can’t possibly be tyrannical.
History is cruel to movements built on that conceit. Moral intoxication always starts with applause and ends with shortages, censorship, and fear. The players change; the pattern doesn’t. The idea that good intentions cancel accountability has wrecked more societies than malice ever did.
That’s the foundation of what follows. The Democrats haven’t replaced the Bolsheviks in name, but they’ve inherited their psychology, the belief that a thirst for power authorizes control. History suggests what comes next won’t be utopia.
Historical Prologue: The Bolshevik Template
To understand the pattern, remember how it began in 1917. The Bolsheviks didn’t promise terror. They promised fairness. Liberation. Equality. They claimed they would free the worker from exploitation. Russia was poor and bitter, and that message sounded holy. Millions followed.
But revolutions seldom stop at fairness. The Bolsheviks redefined equality as obedience to the Party. Success no longer meant prosperity or freedom but loyalty. Within two years, the revolution that preached justice had outlawed dissent. By 1922, they had replaced ordinary courts with revolutionary tribunals and created the Cheka, a secret police charged with punishing thought crimes.
Lenin called the terror an unfortunate necessity on the way to progress. When food vanished, he blamed hoarders and saboteurs. When critics spoke up, he branded them enemies of history. Each failure justified tighter control. The outcome was predictable: a collapsed economy and a population governed by fear.
The lesson of 1917 isn’t only Russian. It’s human. Once people acquire absolute moral certainty, they stop checking their own impulses. The Bolsheviks weren’t monsters in their own eyes. They were intellectuals convinced their compassion excused whatever cruelty was needed to reach their goals. Confiscation was benevolence. Censorship was protection. Killing became mercy if it served the movement.
Every ideology that treats disagreement as sin ends up the same way. The French Jacobins called it defending liberty. Mao called it re‑education. Each began by declaring the old order beyond reform and ended by destroying the foundations of civilization itself. The slogans change, yet the structure remains: moral absolutes, centralized planning, selective enforcement, and the slow death of freedom.
That is the template. A ruling class convinces citizens that fairness requires control. Power then justifies itself as service. Coercion becomes routine, virtue its excuse. As rhetoric grows louder than results, and each failure is sold as proof of righteousness, the movement turns from moral project to self‑protection.
The Bolsheviks believed they were redeeming the world. They starved it instead. They hoped to free minds and ended by silencing them. Every step followed the same pattern: moral certainty, escalating control, eventual ruin.
If that sounds familiar, it should. History doesn’t repeat verbatim, but it does rhyme in human behavior. The same impulse that built the revolutionary tribunal now hides in modern slogans of equity and inclusion. Different dialect, same faith, the insistence that virtue authorizes power.
Modern Echoes: The Democrat Party’s Parallel Track
The United States has never had a revolution in the formal sense, yet a revolutionary mindset has taken root inside its ruling class. The Democrat Party once called itself the party of the common man. It is now the party of the credentialed, the bureaucratic, and the corporate. The slogans sound populist, but the methods concentrate power.
The logic behind the modern movement is the same one the Bolsheviks used: if motives are pure, restraint becomes old‑fashioned. That is why Democrat leaders speak in the moral language of crusades rather than the civic language of policy. Every disagreement becomes a threat. Every skeptic becomes dangerous. What looks like compassion operates as fear management, a politics of intimidation wrapped in virtue talk.
The first echo of that old pattern is the manipulation of language. The Democrats, like all moralizing movements, learned that control of words becomes control of people. The revolutionaries of 1917 spoke of “class enemies” and “enemies of the people.” Today we hear softer phrases: “disinformation,” “hate speech,” “anti‑democratic rhetoric.” The vocabulary changes, the function stays the same. Each new term gives leaders permission to decide what others are allowed to think.
The next echo is selective outrage. In 2020, cities burned for weeks while the media called protests “mostly peaceful.” Businesses vanished, billions in losses piled up, and dozens died. In 2025, riots followed revelations of government fraud. Tesla dealerships, state buildings, and public offices were torched. Commentators explained the violence as sociological pain, not criminality. Yet when a few hundred people breached the Capitol on January 6, the reaction became apocalyptic. Violence by the approved is catharsis. Violence by opponents is heresy.
Another echo shows up in the alliance between government and wealth. In Democrat rhetoric, billionaires are villains, unless they fund the cause. Silicon Valley executives coordinate censorship that benefits the Party. Wall Street financiers write environmental rules they profit from. Lobbyists revolve between agencies that regulate and companies that pay. By 2025, the five richest metro areas, all deep blue, controlled more venture capital and federal contracts than the entire central United States. Dependency is labeled compassion. Monopoly is sold as progress.
A fourth echo comes through the courts and bureaucracies. Lenin replaced neutral law with revolutionary conscience. Modern Democrats accomplish the same thing slowly through what they call a “living Constitution.” Judges and regulators rewrite statutes by interpretation, each ruling expanding government under the pretense of fairness or safety. What the law means now depends on who you are and whom you support. In some cities, assault charges vanish while misgendering someone at work can end a career. That isn’t equality under law. It’s ideological privilege.
The cultural system completes the loop. American education has become the modern commissar school. By 2025, four out of five professors identified as left of center. Students graduate fluent in resentment but illiterate in logic. They learn that disagreement equals hate and that compassion means political alignment. A country can’t stay free when its youth confuse slogans with reasoning.
The press plays its own role. Instead of Pravda, we have a chorus that sings in tune. Algorithms reward conformity. Search engines bury dissent. Between 2020 and 2025, independent outlets saw online visibility drop by more than two‑thirds. The public sees fewer facts but hears more speeches about transparency. The appearance of debate replaces debate itself.
None of this arrived through revolution. It crept in one appeal to moral emergency at a time. The Democrat Party has become a coalition of the convinced. Its leaders are sincere, but sincerity changes nothing. Compassion without restraint becomes control. Justice without measurement becomes revenge. America is living through that polite descent, supervised by officials who congratulate themselves for their goodness as they tighten the rules on speech, energy, and commerce.
The parallels with earlier revolutionary movements are too consistent to ignore. An intellectual elite praises equality while hoarding advantage. A government that once guaranteed liberty now guarantees social virtue. Ordinary people know something is wrong, yet are told that noticing it is suspect. Liberty rarely falls by invasion. It falls to moral exhaustion.
Comparative Lessons from Other Revolutions
History’s tyrants seldom saw themselves as villains. That’s our mistake about them. The masterminds of revolutionary systems aren’t dreamers who lost their way. They are technicians of power who dress ambition in moral language. The slogans are bait. Control is the catch.
France 1789
The Jacobins didn’t stumble into terror; they engineered it. Robespierre learned that fear works faster than persuasion. Public executions became ritual theater, a press conference with a blade. They wrapped brutality in virtue and called it the defense of liberty. When citizens had to proclaim loyalty just to live, obedience replaced belief. That’s how moral rhetoric becomes surveillance.
Germany 1919 to 1933
Weimar’s radicals understood that chaos justifies control. They tolerated street violence when it served the narrative. Red gangs rampaged, nationalists were prosecuted, and the public grew desperate for order. Once people equate freedom with disorder, they beg for discipline. The lesson was simple: create the problem, claim to regret it, then offer yourself as the cure.
Russia 1917
Lenin and Trotsky built ministries devoted to class conflict because permanent strife guaranteed loyalty. Famine kept people dependent. Secret police cleaned out rivals who had become too competent. Every atrocity disciplined the bureaucracy. Revolution was only the opening bid. The long game was absolute power disguised as compassion.
China 1966 to 1976
Mao didn’t unleash the Red Guards to fight the old order but to terrify his own Party. By letting mobs destroy teachers, artists, and administrators, he cleared away anyone who might question him. The Cultural Revolution was moral perfume masking political euthanasia. Millions died, but the system lived and so did Mao, measuring progress by obedience instead of prosperity.
The details differ, but the pattern is always the same. None of these rulers cared about equality in any real sense. They cared about command. The rituals of confession, the slogans, the propaganda, all served one purpose: to test submission. People forced to repeat lies, whether “the Party is the people” or “men can become women”, become manageable because truth no longer belongs to them. Once truth belongs to power, power doesn’t need violence. Humiliation does the work.
That mindset runs through today’s ruling class. The tone is therapeutic, the goal technical. They’re not trying to heal divisions; they’re harvesting them. Manufactured outrage pays. Guilt keeps citizens compliant. Issues like climate, race, and gender serve as moral storefronts for the old product: control. Behind compassion lies bureaucracy, data capture, financial influence, and psychological management through fear.
Every revolution that preaches virtue while expanding government is run by people who treat morality as leverage, not restraint. Yesterday they called it “the people’s state.” Today it’s “defending democracy.” Same product, new wrapper. The moral vocabulary changed, the arithmetic didn’t: terror when needed, silence when effective, and endless claims of righteousness to sanctify the machinery.
That’s the real lesson of history. These movements weren’t hijacked by extremists. They were designed by professionals who understood the power’s rate of return. People assume corruption ruins idealists. In truth, power attracts the ones who already know its value. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we’ll see what kind of people we’re dealing with and why they smile while everything around them withers.
Present Consequences
The results of this long experiment are no longer theoretical. By the end of 2025, the Democrat Party has shown that moral theater can become an operating system for power. What began as promises of fairness now functions as a network of surveillance, regulation, and dependency. Compassion has turned into discipline, managed from the top.
The evidence is measurable. Forty percent of Americans now live in regions ruled by one party and one narrative. In those areas, the pattern repeats: debt soars, infrastructure decays, crime rises, investment flees. Yet officials survive because control of information protects them better than performance ever could. Opposing voices are erased from the digital platforms where almost all politics now occurs. Algorithms built to fight “disinformation” steadily erase conservative or even centrist reporting. What the Bolsheviks achieved through censorship offices, Democrats achieve with code.
Economic life reveals the same pattern. By 2025, federal “equity” programs and environmental rules have become pipelines for corporate favoritism. Fortune 500 companies now receive more in credits and subsidized loans for “climate innovation” than the entire annual budgets of twenty midsized states. The money circles among agencies, nonprofits, and campaign donors under the banner of saving the planet. It is planned bribery wrapped in moral language.
Ordinary Americans sense this even if they cannot chart the system. Inflation erodes wages, small businesses vanish under compliance costs, and basic goods creep out of reach. The people in charge treat hardship as proof that citizens still have too much freedom. Their answer to every failure is more oversight. When ideology fuses with survival, every crisis becomes an invoice for control.
Public safety follows the same logic. In many Democrat‑run cities where prosecutors have refused to enforce basic laws, homicide levels remain significantly above their pre‑2019 baselines—even after the brief declines of 2024. Some jurisdictions still record murder totals 40 to 80 percent higher than before the pandemic. Police resignations remain near record highs, yet politicians describe this as progress toward “community justice.” Meanwhile, government surveillance over peaceful citizens expands. The excuse is “domestic extremism.” The reality is preemptive intimidation. The purpose is not safety but submission. The numbers inside these ‘reform’ prosecutor offices tell the story more honestly than any press conference.
Education, the seedbed of future ideology, has become a closed circuit. Federal funding flows through social equity mandates that enforce ideological loyalty. Universities are audited not for scholarship but for demographics. In high schools, space once spent on mathematics or literature now goes to moral training. Children learn to distrust their heritage and fear reputational punishment. In a single generation, civic identity has turned into moral liability.
The press, once adversarial, is now a partner of power. Access is the leash. Reporters who echo official statistics keep their careers. Those who ask questions lose them. It is censorship by starvation instead of by prison.
Together these changes create a nation that still votes but no longer debates. A single moral vocabulary dominates every broadcast. Every policy: spending, censorship, regulation, is justified by emergency. Every critic is accused of cruelty. Society is now divided by virtue rather than class, and admission into the virtuous caste depends on public displays of agreement. That is how old totalitarian systems maintained obedience. The American version is digital. It enforces conformity through unemployment and social exile instead of the gun.
Across major Democrat cities, homicide rates remain double their 2019 levels, while federal departments have added more than two hundred thousand bureaucrats since 2021. Every failure feeds the case for larger administration. Decay fuels the machine that caused it.
The elites guiding this arrangement are not sentimental idealists. They are engineers of permanence. They can preside over decline while preaching moral progress because decline keeps people dependent. The worse conditions become, the more essential the system looks.
Crises are currency. Chaos is collateral. The language of empathy, whether in a committee speech or a televised town hall, serves only to dignify extraction. The public is taught to repeat words like fairness, equity, and sustainability while losing ownership of nearly everything that once provided stability. That is not kindness. It is management.
By late 2025, America has reached the point every ideological revolution eventually meets. The slogans still sound noble, but those who repeat them are custodians of control. The national mood has been trained to mistake supervision for safety.
Direction of Travel
Every political order reaches a point when words no longer hide results. The Democrat Party is nearing that stage. The mask slips when the moral language stops improving lives. When that happens, people learn the vocabulary was never about life. It was about power.
Societies crumble in familiar steps. First comes moral inflation, when language replaces truth. Then comes institutional capture, when those words become credentials for advancement. Last comes consolidation, when order is enforced through exhaustion. When people grow too tired to argue, obedience feels like peace.
America is moving along that slope. The propaganda no longer promises justice, only protection. The subtext is simple: trust us or face danger. The policies that follow are just as predictable: new regulatory powers, surveillance in the name of safety, and censorship for the public good.
History shows the sequel. The French faced a Committee of Public Safety. The Russians built labor camps. The Chinese created internal passports. The path from moral panic to total management isn’t a theory. It’s an archive.
America has not yet reached open tyranny, but the managerial state is forming. It doesn’t silence everyone, only those who threaten its credibility. It doesn’t imprison thousands. It ruins them financially or reputationally. Citizens remain legally free but learn to censor themselves to keep their jobs. This is efficient authoritarianism. It enlists the public in its own restraint.
Within this system, independence fades. Coordination replaces production. Regulation replaces competition. Speech becomes performance. Journalism turns into repetition. The architects understand the transformation perfectly. Order is their product. They want citizens who can’t imagine governing themselves. When people believe they are too unqualified to be free, liberty dies quietly.
The process won’t reverse on its own. It will continue until civic fatigue reaches the level that destroyed earlier republics. At that breaking point, a strong executive always appears, promising clarity and calm. Some celebrate him, others fear him, few resist. Every society that worships managed virtue ends that way. People trade independence for peace long before they admit it.
The sequence never changes: moral certainty begets administration, administration breeds dependency, dependency breeds docility, and docility delivers permanent authority to those least deserving of it. The final condition is always identical: a government that talks endlessly about progress while forbidding questions that measure it.
That is where Democrat leadership has steered the country. They know persuasion has run its course. But they also know obedience no longer needs persuasion once habit takes its place. Earlier regimes faced the same choice and clung to power because letting go meant accountability. The difference now is technology. Modern tools let soft tyranny operate indefinitely without visible violence. And that, more than ideology itself, defines this era.
Decline Is Not Permanent
Every civilization eventually reaches a moment when it must tell itself the truth. Decline is never fate. It happens when people decide to defend failure instead of ending it. Recovery begins the moment they stop negotiating with it.
America doesn’t need another manifesto. It needs measurement. The test should be simple: did it work? For two decades, the ruling class has done the opposite, measuring virtue by vocabulary and rewarding policies that sound noble even when they fail. That habit can be broken only when results matter more than approval.
The steps back are practical.
Transparency. Bureaucracies hide mistakes by multiplying rules. Their natural habitat is confusion. The antidote is daylight. Every budget, every grant, every security program should be visible and searchable. A free nation doesn’t need endless inquiries. It needs citizens who can read the ledgers.
Education. Corruption begins in the mind before the bank. Schools that teach logic and history produce adults who recognize manipulation. Schools that trade reason for grievance produce followers. Restoring civic literacy isn’t cultural luxury. It’s survival.
Economic freedom. People who own their work answer to customers, not party spokesmen. Ownership breeds honesty because independence makes truth practical again. The more income depends on government favor, the more lying becomes a career. The remedy for corruption is creation.
Courage. Systems of deceit collapse when citizens stop repeating lies. Telling the truth in an age of intimidation isn’t heroic; it’s normal behavior that went out of style. Every honest word shrinks the empire of fear.
Humility. Freedom is not natural. It’s a discipline that demands skepticism toward anyone eager to manage others “for their own good.” The Constitution was written by men who had seen virtue turn to vanity once power attached to it. They assumed their heirs would remember. It’s time to prove them right.
Civilizations rarely die overnight; they corrode until people stop trusting their eyes. When truth becomes negotiable, collapse has already begun. The Democrat Party has built its power on that corrosion: turning virtue into marketing, guilt into obedience, and compassion into currency that always inflates until real virtue is worthless. The architects know what they are doing. The easiest tyranny is the one clothed in empathy. It doesn’t forbid prayer; it redefines it. It doesn’t ban speech; it edits who can be heard. It doesn’t seize property; it taxes ownership until ownership disappears. Efficient. Polite. Effective.
History has run this experiment before: the Jacobins in Paris, the Bolsheviks in Moscow, the Cultural Revolution in China. Each promised liberation through control and reached the same fork in the road. Either citizens reclaimed the courage to tell the truth, or they dissolved quietly into submission. There is no third option.
Decline ends when people stop excusing failure. The power that built this country still lives in simple honesty. Each time someone says aloud what everyone knows, one brick falls from the wall of deceit. Nations survive when citizens choose difficulty over deception. Freedom doesn’t require sainthood, only stubborn clarity. The end is near if we keep choosing comfort. It isn’t, if we choose truth.
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Excellent essay - thanks. I hope thousands will take it to heart.