Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet Journalist discussed the Four Stages of Ideological Subversion

In 1984, Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet Journalist and KGB informer, discussed the Four Stages of Ideological Subversion. Observing against our Western political landscape is eerily recognizable.

1) Demoralization
The population becomes willing to believe the worst criticisms of its own society, while learning to see defenders of that society as their enemies.

2) Destabilization
The fundamentals of the targeted population’s economy, political system, and culture would be attacked, while the demoralized population could not mount much of a defense.

3) Crisis
This has the obvious benefit of panicking demoralized, destabilized people into abandoning their legal protections and constitutional ideals

4) Normalization
After a crisis, with a violent change of the power structure and economy, you have a so-called period of Normalization that may last indefinitely.

Thankfully, people are waking up to this manipulation, and The Powers That Be are struggling to implement their subversion of society.