America’s Greatest Enemies

America’s Greatest Enemies - Stephen Whitney

"...Whatever one’s opinion on Trump’s bid for presidency, his words on this issue address something key for America’s future. In the video, he specifies what needs to be done:

“We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to immediately have a total cessation of hostilities. All shooting has to stop. This is the central issue. We need peace without delay. … There must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire … establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to be fight for freedom and democracy abroad while they turn us into third world country and a third world dictatorship right here at home.”

So not only must the war stop—the power structure responsible for it and other wars must be dismantled...
But perhaps the most insightful of Trump’s comments in the video is this part:

“These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed. Evicting this sick and corrupt establishment is the monumental task of the next president.”

Americans are used to being told that our nation’s existential threats primarily lie abroad. 

Russia, Iran, China, Syria, and so on—our overlords benefit from us directing our focus toward these regimes, rather than toward our own. 

Not only does this distract from our rulers’ corrupt dealings, it bolsters their legitimacy by allowing them to tell us that they are keeping us safe.

• Whatever their faults, it is not Russia or Iran that poses the greatest threat to the American people—it’s the globalist regime in Washington. 
• We can’t blame Putin for the opioid epidemic, outsourcing American jobs, affirmative action, critical race theory, mass immigration, or the LGBT agenda. 

But we can and should blame those in power here who, through either indifference or outright malice, have presided over the decline of America.
Scapegoating is a tactic common to totalitarian regimes...