The Old “Pressure from Above and Pressure from Below” Game

Several years ago, a young college revolutionary of leftist persuasion wrote a revealing little book called The Strawberry Statement–Notes of a Collège Revolutionary. I guess in his own way, he was trying to explain what the “spontaneous” campus riots of the 1960s were all about. Although naive in some areas, he was nonetheless observant.

For example, on page 130 of his book he made the following observations: “Also at the convention, men from Business International Roundtables–the meetings sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government–tried to buy up a few radicals. These men are the world’s leading industrialists, and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the guys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They’re the left wing of the ruling class.” Sort of like the Bill Gates’s and Zuckerbergs of today–the left wing of the ruling class–the people who want to control every facet of our lives and work on their agendas to do just that–and hope we don’t notice!

He continued, and remember, this is the late 1960s, and he talked about those people wanting Eugene McCarthy in as president but at that point, they felt the only way for McCarthy to win was for the leftist radicals to act up so they would make McCarthy look more like a centrist instead of a leftist. This is reminiscent of tactics that are still used today to befuddle the American public–the Democratic candidate is really made to look like a raving leftist to scare people off so they will end up voting for the leftist Republican, who then can utter a few conservative shibboleths to ensure his election. Often the Republican candidate is every bit as much a socialist as the Democrat, but if he can just bite his tongue and sound conservative, that’s often enough to fool today’s useful idiots into voting for him. And you can bet most will never check out what he said vs. what he ends up doing.

Up until Trump won this was pretty much the MO of the two-party duopoly that runs the country, and they made a few minor adjustments to make Trump look bad while promoting Biden as the new “moderate.” What a laugh!

But here comes the kicker. On page 131 the college revolutionary continued: “We were offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left.” These quotes are quite revelatory if you think about it a bit. They demonstrate the old conservative truth that the American people are being and have been led for years and subjected to an old Communist tactic known as “pressure from above and pressure from below.” This pressure is always applied pretty much the same way and always used to achieve specific goals in the plan to restrict our liberties. A prime example was the so-called Patriot Act, which Congress was coerced into voting for without ever having a chance to read it. It was supposed to “protect” us from those nasty terrorists when all it really did overall was to enact severe restrictions on our liberties. And then we had to go to war with Iraq because those terrible thugs employed by Saddam Hussein had all those weapons of mass destruction, and so we had to take them out by an unending “war on terrorism” which, thanks to this current leftist administration, the terrorists seem to be winning. No surprises there. And as for those “weapons of mass destruction” Saddam supposedly wielded back then, well, they never did find any of them–but the myth served its purpose.

But go back and analyze what this college radical told us–wealthy industrialists in this country buy up leftist radicals so they, themselves, can appear moderate while the radicals look like barbarians. And the average American, caught in the middle, will always look to government to protect him from the barbarians at the gates–and the government is more than willing to do that–for a price–and that price is the loss of your liberties. For that price they will “protect” you (sometimes) from those their friends in big business have recently bought and paid for to scare you into trading your liberty for security. And, of course, part of that “security” they provide will be strict gun control to “remove guns from the hands of the criminal element” which, since they seem to believe ordinary citizens are little more than domestic terrorists–is us! See where this is all going? After all, isn’t the loss of your freedom a worthy price to pay for “government protection?”

For those who might be interested in some history I would recommend a book published way back in 1976 called The Rockefeller File, written by Gary Allen. I believe this book can now be found on the internet and can be downloaded. It will give you some worthwhile info about who really runs things in this country and there is, if I recall, a section in there about how the Rockefellers have influenced education in this country (and not for the better).