1
00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:05,429
Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

2
00:00:05,429 --> 00:00:08,949
moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

3
00:00:09,769 --> 00:00:16,250
Today, where do the children of the 1960s generation stand in the judgment of history?

4
00:00:16,910 --> 00:00:22,730
Oh, the judgment of God for that matter as well. We will be judged as generations as well as

5
00:00:22,730 --> 00:00:28,449
individuals. Well, I submit to you that my generation, and I'm talking about my generation,

6
00:00:28,449 --> 00:00:34,869
as the who would say, from the 1960s, talking about my generation. Oh, the generation of the

7
00:00:34,869 --> 00:00:41,469
60s, the baby boomers, has shaped and determined so much of American history that what we see

8
00:00:41,469 --> 00:00:46,490
happening before our eyes today has been determined in some part by it. If you look out upon the

9
00:00:46,490 --> 00:00:52,350
political landscape today, the cultural landscape today, for example, and maybe you scratch your

10
00:00:52,350 --> 00:00:58,049
head and you ask, how can this be? How can radical socialism overtake America like it has? How can

11
00:00:58,049 --> 00:01:03,909
our constitution be forgotten so easily in the last few decades? Well, what many people do not

12
00:01:03,909 --> 00:01:09,489
realize is that this process began in earnest back in my day. That is, back in the 1960s. They were days

13
00:01:09,489 --> 00:01:16,609
of revolution and not without cause. We came very close to complete chaos and a complete meltdown in

14
00:01:16,609 --> 00:01:23,549
America. Marxist socialism was alive and well in America for generations before the 1960s.

15
00:01:23,549 --> 00:01:31,349
And I just put forward men like Eugene V. Debs, who led the union movement and the socialist party

16
00:01:31,349 --> 00:01:36,209
ticket for years in the first quarter of the 20th century, but never made much headway with the

17
00:01:36,209 --> 00:01:41,790
American public. And in the 1950s, you may remember Alger Hiss was a communist found in the Eisenhower

18
00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:48,829
administration. And Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were communist traitors executed for betraying nuclear

19
00:01:48,829 --> 00:01:54,629
secrets to the communists in the Soviet Union. And throughout this period, Americans saw communism

20
00:01:54,629 --> 00:01:59,829
for what it was. That is an atheistic, fanatical ideology that opposed everything for which America

21
00:01:59,829 --> 00:02:07,069
stood. But it was not until the onset of the 1960s and its radical politics that socialism began to take

22
00:02:07,069 --> 00:02:13,129
serious foothold in American life to the destruction of that way of life, I might add. And it was my generation

23
00:02:13,129 --> 00:02:20,710
that put it into warp drive on its way to driving America over cliff communism. What made us uniquely

24
00:02:20,710 --> 00:02:27,930
vulnerable? What is it, I ask you, that made us uniquely vulnerable to the siren song of socialism?

25
00:02:28,689 --> 00:02:34,389
Why have we, the 60s generation, the me generation, spent the better part of our lifetimes bringing about

26
00:02:34,389 --> 00:02:39,370
from within the system, what generations of violent outsiders could never accomplish?

27
00:02:39,370 --> 00:02:46,430
Well, let me first review briefly the forces that shaped us, that shaped me, made the 60s generation,

28
00:02:46,550 --> 00:02:51,789
the me generation, so vulnerable. Number one, four things. Number one, peace and prosperity spoiled us.

29
00:02:52,550 --> 00:02:59,110
Yes, peace and prosperity spoiled us. We're spoiled brats. No generation experienced the wealth and the

30
00:02:59,110 --> 00:03:04,469
sense of security for the future that my generation experienced. After World War II, America sat at the

31
00:03:04,469 --> 00:03:10,650
top of the heap of nations. We had emerged from World War II as undisputed victors with a great

32
00:03:10,650 --> 00:03:16,990
industrial machine that now shifted from producing war material to peacetime consumer products. Soap,

33
00:03:17,169 --> 00:03:21,370
cars, nylons, records, food, airplanes, barbecue grills, little boxy homes in the suburbs in the

34
00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:26,590
leisure time in which to enjoy it all began to flourish all over America. There was a sense that

35
00:03:26,590 --> 00:03:32,210
self-gratification and self-fulfillment with all the amenities that accompany it were the natural state

36
00:03:32,210 --> 00:03:37,810
of man. And it would always be the condition of the American people. Well, that helped to shape us.

37
00:03:37,889 --> 00:03:44,069
Number two, guilt and self-loathing fueled us. Yes, this is a generation of guilt and self-loathing

38
00:03:44,069 --> 00:03:48,870
as so many liberals are. With my generation, kids with privilege and wealth were wracked with feelings

39
00:03:48,870 --> 00:03:54,210
of guilt over their place and their position to which they were born and did not earn. Instead of

40
00:03:54,210 --> 00:03:58,849
improving and growing what they had that all might benefit, Americans of my generation felt they had

41
00:03:58,849 --> 00:04:02,689
to redistribute what they had to those less fortunate. You know this theme, don't you?

42
00:04:02,750 --> 00:04:08,189
The redistribution of wealth. It's a socialist principle. A direct result of this attitude was

43
00:04:08,189 --> 00:04:13,009
the great society programs of Lyndon Johnson, for example, and all of the welfare culture that

44
00:04:13,009 --> 00:04:19,069
flowed from it for generations. Number three, the third force that helped to shape me, helped to

45
00:04:19,069 --> 00:04:25,490
shape my generation, the me generation, baby boomers. Number three, apocalyptic fear of doom

46
00:04:25,490 --> 00:04:30,730
paralyzed us. We were the first generation to live under the shadow of a mushroom cloud,

47
00:04:30,790 --> 00:04:35,829
the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb. For the first time in recorded history, mankind had the

48
00:04:35,829 --> 00:04:42,290
capacity to destroy itself and all remaining life several times over with nuclear weapons. The United

49
00:04:42,290 --> 00:04:48,069
States of America had begun this potential by dropping atomic bombs upon the cities of Hiroshima

50
00:04:48,069 --> 00:04:55,189
and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Well, that was part of the guilt and self-loathing as well. And at the time,

51
00:04:55,189 --> 00:05:01,209
it seemed perfectly possible that utter obliteration of mankind could happen at any moment. Russia and

52
00:05:01,209 --> 00:05:07,750
America were engaged in a nuclear arms race to see who could out destroy the other. Oh, uh, the fourth

53
00:05:07,750 --> 00:05:13,529
thing that helped to shape in general, me and my generation, the baby boomer generation,

54
00:05:13,529 --> 00:05:20,050
pride and self-centeredness consumed us. Yes. We thought we were the apex of humanity, the absolute

55
00:05:20,050 --> 00:05:25,350
culmination of human evolution and progress. No one was smarter than us. No one was wealthier and

56
00:05:25,350 --> 00:05:29,230
more privileged than us. And no one was better equipped to change the world for the better than

57
00:05:29,230 --> 00:05:35,629
us. Oh, what pride, what hubris. Therefore, the world was all about us. This is precisely why we

58
00:05:35,629 --> 00:05:43,009
were called the me generation. All for me, all for us. I'm talking about my generation. We were so proud

59
00:05:43,009 --> 00:05:48,589
of who we were and what we could achieve. Was there racial discrimination? We will end it. Was there

60
00:05:48,589 --> 00:05:53,410
poverty in the world? We will redistribute the wealth from the greedy rich to the needy poor.

61
00:05:53,889 --> 00:05:59,589
Was there war upon the earth? We will end it and bring universal peace. Was government for the

62
00:05:59,589 --> 00:06:05,110
privileged few and the rapacious corporations? Well, we will bring revolution and democracy and make

63
00:06:05,110 --> 00:06:10,490
government the people's government. Well, I submit to you, it's time to call my generation,

64
00:06:10,670 --> 00:06:16,410
the me generation, the baby boomers to account. Have we done this? Have we done what we said we

65
00:06:16,410 --> 00:06:22,310
would do? Oh boy. Peace, peace. During the Vietnam War, we said, but there was no peace. In fact,

66
00:06:22,329 --> 00:06:27,170
it can be argued that the world still stands upon a precipice of greater war and genocide than ever,

67
00:06:27,329 --> 00:06:30,949
precisely because instead of standing firmly in strength, as our founders insisted,

68
00:06:30,949 --> 00:06:35,569
we are laying down our arms, making ourselves vulnerable to the predators of the world. Well,

69
00:06:36,509 --> 00:06:41,649
if you're old enough to remember these turbulent days of the 1960s, you may remember vaguely or maybe

70
00:06:41,649 --> 00:06:46,970
clearly the petulant, childish rants of my generation as they looked out upon their world and judged it

71
00:06:46,970 --> 00:06:54,129
for being far less than the perfection with which they had been born. And we swore that we would make

72
00:06:54,129 --> 00:06:59,189
it better. On the one hand, we must know how hopelessly idealistic we were in thinking we could

73
00:06:59,189 --> 00:07:04,649
perfect the world on our command. On the other hand, we must also know how ungrateful we were as

74
00:07:04,649 --> 00:07:08,769
well towards our heritage and towards our constitution that had given us what we had.

75
00:07:09,129 --> 00:07:13,730
Like Obama, we thought it was obsolete, the constitution. Those of you too young to remember

76
00:07:13,730 --> 00:07:18,610
those days, having been born perhaps to another generation, you may wonder how we arrived at such

77
00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:23,750
a past. Why there's so much of a disconnect between what our founding fathers intended and what has

78
00:07:23,750 --> 00:07:28,350
happened to us in these last 40 to 50 years. Well, it's been that long. It's hard to think,

79
00:07:28,350 --> 00:07:34,529
but it has been that long. But know this, every generation does something with a baton of heritage

80
00:07:34,529 --> 00:07:40,670
that is handed to it. Those of the X generation and subsequent generations know this. Every generation

81
00:07:40,670 --> 00:07:46,569
does something with a baton of heritage handed to it. That generation either advances it further and

82
00:07:46,569 --> 00:07:52,949
faster towards the finish line or else slows and sabotages the race to victory. Which do you think

83
00:07:52,949 --> 00:07:59,410
characterizes the baby boom generation, my generation, the me generation? When compared to the principles

84
00:07:59,410 --> 00:08:05,990
of our founding fathers, we must judge the children of the 1960s as failures. We not only slowed and

85
00:08:05,990 --> 00:08:09,970
sabotaged the race to victory, but it can be argued that we conspired to throw the race all together.

86
00:08:10,970 --> 00:08:16,069
It is my contention that no generation of American children so blatantly and self-consciously

87
00:08:16,069 --> 00:08:22,529
plan to destroy the America founded by men like Washington and Jefferson than us. In philosophy,

88
00:08:22,529 --> 00:08:28,009
our founding fathers studied men like John Locke and Montesquieu. My generation read the philosophers

89
00:08:28,009 --> 00:08:33,789
of despair like Nietzsche and Sartre. Our founding fathers relied upon the foundation of biblical

90
00:08:33,789 --> 00:08:39,210
Christianity to provide a moral and spiritual framework for the Constitution. My generation,

91
00:08:39,210 --> 00:08:45,309
the me generation, the 60s rejected Christianity in favor of Eastern mysticism. Remember the Maharishi

92
00:08:45,309 --> 00:08:51,230
yogi that the Beatles followed for so long and made a fortune here in America too? And they also followed

93
00:08:51,230 --> 00:08:57,690
existentialism, New Age spirituality, anything and everything but Christianity unless we forfeited any

94
00:08:57,690 --> 00:09:03,549
claim to morality. Our founding fathers cherished life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness while my

95
00:09:03,549 --> 00:09:08,830
generation repeated the mantra of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Our founding fathers studied and

96
00:09:08,830 --> 00:09:15,149
brought to conscious application the free market capitalist economics of Adam Smith, which emphasized

97
00:09:15,149 --> 00:09:20,090
self-reliance and independence of the worker, while my generation tried to overthrow all of this with

98
00:09:20,090 --> 00:09:25,610
the Marxist-Socialist-Communist economics of Karl Marx, which of course emphasized the dependence of

99
00:09:25,610 --> 00:09:32,389
the worker upon the state for his economic well-being. This insidious smuggling of Marxist-Socialism

100
00:09:32,389 --> 00:09:39,070
goes on, yet even today with the Democrats, with our present administration, with the so-called

101
00:09:39,070 --> 00:09:44,250
progressives. This insidious smuggling of Marxist-Socialism into our way of life has been one of the most

102
00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:49,990
destructive trends of recent history. When Nikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union in 1956,

103
00:09:49,990 --> 00:09:56,450
said, we will bury you. Americans rallied as a nation to reject this threat, and Khrushchev meant that the

104
00:09:56,450 --> 00:10:01,809
Soviet communist system would eventually replace capitalism. And we rightly perceived that communism

105
00:10:01,809 --> 00:10:07,830
attacked everything that had made America great. It was an external threat by a nation that was most

106
00:10:07,830 --> 00:10:14,710
apparently a tyranny as a direct fruit of its own philosophy, Marxist-Socialism. They hated us, and they

107
00:10:14,710 --> 00:10:19,909
held over our head the threat of total nuclear war. And for decades, we were locked in a desperate

108
00:10:19,909 --> 00:10:26,970
struggle to see whose system, a free, capitalist republic, or a tyrannical communist totalitarianism

109
00:10:26,970 --> 00:10:32,570
would prevail upon the world stage. Every American should thank God that America and liberty was

110
00:10:32,570 --> 00:10:39,350
victorious in the 1980s, especially under Ronald Reagan. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989,

111
00:10:39,950 --> 00:10:45,370
along with the Berlin Wall and other symbols of totalitarianism, was due in no small part to my

112
00:10:45,370 --> 00:10:51,029
father's generation and their dedication to the defeat of communist socialism. There was no better

113
00:10:51,029 --> 00:10:56,230
representative of that greatest generation than President Ronald Reagan, whose strategy of peace

114
00:10:56,230 --> 00:11:01,809
through strength helped to bring down the Soviet Union. That direct frontal assault from the outside

115
00:11:01,809 --> 00:11:07,330
met with defeat and collapse, didn't it? That's history now, a matter of history. But what has

116
00:11:07,330 --> 00:11:13,269
happened since? What has that brave nation that fought so valiantly done with her victory, what has she done

117
00:11:13,269 --> 00:11:17,789
with it? Well, I'm afraid that she has let her guard down, and she has lost the battle from within.

118
00:11:18,490 --> 00:11:25,629
Dupes. And what Lenin called useful idiots have begun to foist that very system upon us under a softer

119
00:11:25,629 --> 00:11:32,830
cover and a different name. Oh, Vladimir Lenin said he perceived very accurately that within the very

120
00:11:32,830 --> 00:11:38,250
capitalist system, within democracy, within republics, there would be those useful idiots that they would

121
00:11:38,250 --> 00:11:42,110
be able to employ to help destroy those nations from within, and look what has happened.

122
00:11:43,269 --> 00:11:50,149
It is as if Peter, in the old fable Peter and the Wolf, has slain the wolf from the woods that

123
00:11:50,149 --> 00:11:54,769
threatened him in his farm only to be eaten by another who has come in sheep's clothing with soft

124
00:11:54,769 --> 00:12:00,250
human words and the appearance of another less threatening creature. Oh, if we were to trace the

125
00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:05,409
history of Marxist communism in the United States of America, we would observe that it has always had a

126
00:12:05,409 --> 00:12:12,250
presence here. It has. Until the appearance of the Soviet Union in 1917, communism was quite fashionable in

127
00:12:12,250 --> 00:12:18,049
many circles, but quickly showed itself for the destructive totalitarianism that it is. When

128
00:12:18,049 --> 00:12:23,309
actually applied in the laboratory of human behavior, as it was manifest under Lenin and later

129
00:12:23,309 --> 00:12:30,730
Joseph Stalin, the majority of Americans soundly rejected communism in those days in favor of

130
00:12:31,129 --> 00:12:36,789
traditional capitalism. Although we were quickly moving from a republic to a democracy, even in those

131
00:12:36,789 --> 00:12:42,490
days, well, with the onset of the Cold War following World War II, it became closely bound up with the

132
00:12:42,490 --> 00:12:47,929
regimes of not only the Soviet Union, but China under Mao and all of the satellite states that came

133
00:12:47,929 --> 00:12:53,789
under the sway. And then when in 1959, Fidel Castro led an apparently democratic revolution

134
00:12:53,789 --> 00:12:59,570
on the tiny island nation of Cuba, only 90 miles from the shore of Florida, well, then lovers of liberty in

135
00:12:59,570 --> 00:13:05,350
America initially rejoiced until they realized that Castro was no friend of liberty when he threw off

136
00:13:05,350 --> 00:13:10,429
his sheep's clothing, talk about a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he imposed the wolfish empire of

137
00:13:10,429 --> 00:13:17,610
Marxist socialism on Cuba. And I'm afraid that JFK's weak and foolish attempt to overthrow that regime in the

138
00:13:17,610 --> 00:13:24,909
Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s merely emboldened Marxist sympathizers in this country. Castro and his

139
00:13:24,909 --> 00:13:30,250
minions like the revolutionary Che Guevara, who exported Cuban-style revolution to South and Central

140
00:13:30,250 --> 00:13:39,009
America, they became heroes. They became heroes to who? Whom do you think? To whom did revolutionaries

141
00:13:39,009 --> 00:13:47,370
like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro become heroes, huh? Oh, I'm embarrassed to say to my fellow American

142
00:13:47,370 --> 00:13:54,929
baby boomers, they became heroes. Todd Gitlin, who was an initial co-founder of SDS, the Students for

143
00:13:54,929 --> 00:14:01,230
Democratic Society, a radical socialist group. Todd Gitlin, in his book, The Sixties, speaks of he and

144
00:14:01,230 --> 00:14:07,669
his fellow revolutionaries protesting JFK's blockade of Cuba. You remember the blockade of Cuba to keep out

145
00:14:07,669 --> 00:14:15,169
Soviet missiles? Revolutionary Cuba touched my heart, Todd Gitlin exudes in his book. And what Che Guevara

146
00:14:15,169 --> 00:14:21,269
attempted to bring to Bolivia from Cuba, my generation, led by Marxists like Tom Hayden,

147
00:14:21,789 --> 00:14:25,470
attempted to bring to the streets of the United States, and that is communist revolution,

148
00:14:26,009 --> 00:14:31,110
to the streets of America in riots back in the 60s. One of Castro's favorite sayings was,

149
00:14:31,509 --> 00:14:37,850
the job of the revolutionary is to make the revolution. Viva la revolution. Castro's favorite

150
00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:42,629
saying, the job of the revolutionary is to make the revolution. And ever since that period,

151
00:14:42,629 --> 00:14:51,610
my generation has been about that perfidious task. Mao in his little red book was fond of saying that

152
00:14:51,610 --> 00:14:58,490
political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, i.e. via violence. And that truth was borne out in

153
00:14:58,490 --> 00:15:08,230
Russia in 1917, China in 1949, Cuba in 1959, and Vietnam in 1975, as communism swept over the globe.

154
00:15:08,230 --> 00:15:14,309
While this was thrilling to my socialist classmates, the American people soundly rejected the violence

155
00:15:14,309 --> 00:15:19,009
espoused by groups like the Weathermen. You remember these characters led by the notorious

156
00:15:19,009 --> 00:15:24,929
revolutionaries like Bernadette Dorn and Bill Ayers who planted bombs. Remember Bill Ayers? Those were

157
00:15:24,929 --> 00:15:30,549
his days. Those were his glory days. And if this was revolution, if this was socialism, then that

158
00:15:30,549 --> 00:15:36,289
generation, the greatest generation, did not want it. Americans were in no mood for the kinds of

159
00:15:36,289 --> 00:15:43,289
petulant, childish tantrums being thrown by my spoiled counterparts, by my baby boomer generation,

160
00:15:43,429 --> 00:15:50,149
the me generation. And then when the war in Vietnam finally came to a pathetic gasping end in 1975,

161
00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:55,909
remember that last helicopter leaving the roof, how iconic that was? The last helicopter escaping from

162
00:15:55,909 --> 00:16:00,210
the roof of the American embassy with people hanging onto it, even as the Viet Cong were in the streets

163
00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:06,289
below, taking the city of Saigon. Well, much of the fuel after this, much of the fuel and the motive

164
00:16:06,289 --> 00:16:10,490
for the movement died. Most Americans went back to their jobs and families to rebuild what had been

165
00:16:10,490 --> 00:16:15,830
lost and destroyed. But what about the hardcore Marxists who had wistfully hoped for revolution

166
00:16:15,830 --> 00:16:19,429
in the streets of America like they saw around the rest of the world? What happened to them?

167
00:16:19,429 --> 00:16:26,450
Well, dear listener, I remember clearly the strategy called for by men like John Sinclair of the White

168
00:16:26,450 --> 00:16:31,870
Panther Party in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I lived at the time, and Tom Hayden of the Students for a

169
00:16:31,870 --> 00:16:38,149
Democratic Society. Work within the system became the mantra. Work within the system. Instead of trying

170
00:16:38,149 --> 00:16:43,769
to destroy it from without, work within the system. This became the mantra of the new left, even as the

171
00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:49,950
white hot fires of violent revolution began to cool in America, at least. If violent revolution would not

172
00:16:49,950 --> 00:16:57,549
accomplish the socialist revolution, then socialist evolution would. This is ensconced in the song

173
00:16:57,549 --> 00:17:03,889
Revolution by the Beatles. John Lennon expressed it openly in the Beatles song Revolution. And I quote

174
00:17:03,889 --> 00:17:08,890
one of the verses for you. You say you want a revolution. Well, you know what? We all want to change

175
00:17:08,890 --> 00:17:13,390
the world. You tell me that it's evolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world. But when you

176
00:17:13,390 --> 00:17:17,869
talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out? Now, you'll be glad I didn't sing

177
00:17:17,869 --> 00:17:23,369
that to you. You can go check that song out again if you want. But Darwinist evolution had long ago

178
00:17:23,369 --> 00:17:28,990
reached the social sciences. And Karl Marx had written about the inevitability of progress and

179
00:17:28,990 --> 00:17:34,369
the eventual triumph of communism. This is the sense of evolution in the mind of progressives today.

180
00:17:35,130 --> 00:17:40,970
These radicals would put down their protest signs. My generation would put it in their mind,

181
00:17:40,970 --> 00:17:45,589
indeed, to put down their protest signs, their homemade bombs. And instead, they would take

182
00:17:45,589 --> 00:17:51,049
up their teacher's certificates and their union cards and go back to work from within the system

183
00:17:51,049 --> 00:17:56,089
to bring about revolution. How dedicated they are. If we were just half as dedicated as Christians,

184
00:17:56,089 --> 00:18:00,690
we would be able to bring the gospel around the world, even as these people are bringing the gospel

185
00:18:00,690 --> 00:18:06,269
of Marxist socialism around the world and trying to bring it to America stealthily themselves, right?

186
00:18:06,269 --> 00:18:13,950
And so instead of calling themselves Marxist and communists openly, Bill Ayers is such a good

187
00:18:13,950 --> 00:18:20,710
example. They would use euphemistic language like liberal and progressive. Bill Ayers went and got his

188
00:18:20,710 --> 00:18:25,589
teaching certificate, didn't he? And he's teaching at the university level now in Illinois, no longer

189
00:18:25,589 --> 00:18:31,490
calling himself a socialist or a Marxist and throwing bombs. Instead, he's throwing erasers and he's calling

190
00:18:31,490 --> 00:18:39,170
himself a progressive or a liberal instead of calling for raw socialism without the mask. Well, it would

191
00:18:39,170 --> 00:18:47,089
become rebranded as democracy. Be careful how these people use the word democracy. That is, students for a

192
00:18:47,089 --> 00:18:53,549
democratic society is a good example. Instead of using the term redistribution of wealth, as Karl Marx had done

193
00:18:53,549 --> 00:19:00,750
in Das Kapital to describe seizing the wealth of capitalist society and giving it to the proletariat,

194
00:19:00,750 --> 00:19:05,130
you bourgeois, we're going to take your money and we're going to give it to the proles, to the

195
00:19:05,130 --> 00:19:11,549
proletariat. Well, instead of openly expressing things like this, progressives would develop the

196
00:19:11,549 --> 00:19:17,990
euphemism economic justice. Familiar with that term? President Obama, a Marxist socialist to the core,

197
00:19:18,109 --> 00:19:24,670
talks about economic justice these days. And it means the very same thing, though. Instead of mandating

198
00:19:24,670 --> 00:19:31,970
from the dictatorship of the proletariat, as Karl Marx puts it in Das Kapital, he talks about the

199
00:19:31,970 --> 00:19:39,309
dictatorship of the proletariat, that the children be raised by the state and families be irrelevant to

200
00:19:39,309 --> 00:19:45,109
the economic interests of society. This was a theme of Marxist socialism. Instead, progressives would

201
00:19:45,109 --> 00:19:51,349
destroy the biblical family slowly from within the system by substituting other models of the family

202
00:19:51,349 --> 00:19:56,690
as equal models. This is a Marxist socialist principle, dear listener. You wonder why this is

203
00:19:56,690 --> 00:20:02,069
going on. It's a Marxist socialist principle. And we would have single parent families, for example,

204
00:20:02,269 --> 00:20:08,230
or gay families, models that would destroy the biblical family. And instead of strengthening

205
00:20:08,230 --> 00:20:14,609
the individual states of the union and severely restrict the size and scope of the massive federal

206
00:20:14,609 --> 00:20:21,009
government as the constitution does, progressives would work within the system to bloat and burgeon the

207
00:20:21,009 --> 00:20:25,569
federal government in order that it might become the dictatorship of the proletariat. That's what we

208
00:20:25,569 --> 00:20:31,849
see unfolding before our eyes, as Karl Marx had envisioned, this kind of top-down command structure

209
00:20:31,849 --> 00:20:38,430
of communism. Well, all of this we see in our own world today. Dear listener, open your eyes. Although

210
00:20:38,430 --> 00:20:44,410
most Americans are oblivious to these facts, merely going along with what they're told, as if all of

211
00:20:44,410 --> 00:20:50,450
these euphemisms and false labels are the real thing. But they are not. They are all products of my

212
00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:55,009
fellow baby boomers and their efforts to take over the cultural institutions of America and

213
00:20:55,009 --> 00:21:02,230
transform her from within. Do you remember Timothy Leary? Oh, some of my generation do. Timothy Leary,

214
00:21:02,509 --> 00:21:08,410
his cultural advice to us all. Fellow baby boomer, tune in, turn on, and drop out. Oh, remember those

215
00:21:08,410 --> 00:21:13,390
phrases? Tune in, turn on, and drop out. That meant that all young people of the baby boom

216
00:21:13,390 --> 00:21:19,009
generation should listen to and take their cue for action from the radicals in their midst. That's the

217
00:21:19,009 --> 00:21:23,869
tune in. And then begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs that would expand one's

218
00:21:23,869 --> 00:21:29,390
consciousness ostensibly. That's what turn on meant. And then finally, to turn one's back on

219
00:21:29,390 --> 00:21:35,089
society as it was then constituted and begin making a new one, a counterculture. That's the idea of drop

220
00:21:35,089 --> 00:21:41,710
out. Tune in, turn on, and drop out. Timothy Leary himself was a Harvard psychologist who experimented

221
00:21:41,710 --> 00:21:48,309
with psychedelic drugs in his own work. When he began using these substances himself, like LSD,

222
00:21:48,309 --> 00:21:54,589
lysergic acid diethylmide, he began to advocate openly for their use for mind-expanding drugs.

223
00:21:55,410 --> 00:22:00,450
Leary said of himself and others like him, his fellow psychologist Richard Alpert, you may remember

224
00:22:00,450 --> 00:22:06,829
from history, later changed his name to the Hindi Ram Dass. Well, Leary and Alpert used to say,

225
00:22:07,170 --> 00:22:13,049
we saw ourselves as anthropologists from the 21st century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in

226
00:22:13,049 --> 00:22:19,289
the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony, we are attempting to create a new paganism and a new

227
00:22:19,289 --> 00:22:26,630
dedication to life as art." Unquote. From Timothy Leary. It sounds as if he had taken one too many

228
00:22:26,630 --> 00:22:33,910
trips on LSD. Well, Harvard at the time did not share Leary's vision, and they created his own mode

229
00:22:33,910 --> 00:22:40,849
of dropping out by firing him from his post as lecturer in psychology. Although Leary went on to

230
00:22:40,849 --> 00:22:46,410
become a cultural guru in the counterculture, not everyone followed his advice to tune in, turn on,

231
00:22:46,470 --> 00:22:53,950
and drop out. His life became one of crime. Leary was charged 10 times for drugs. Betrayal,

232
00:22:54,029 --> 00:22:58,269
he turned in as very radicals who hit him in the weather underground, and tragedy too. Leary's

233
00:22:58,269 --> 00:23:04,029
daughter, his own daughter, committed suicide tragically after years of his weirdness and her

234
00:23:04,029 --> 00:23:09,109
own drug addiction. Now, what the progressives decided to do instead of tuning in, turning on,

235
00:23:09,109 --> 00:23:15,609
dropping out, is what Todd Gitlin of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, describes as

236
00:23:15,609 --> 00:23:21,809
lower your expectations, dress up, and get down to business. Wow, what a drastic difference,

237
00:23:21,869 --> 00:23:26,730
or so it seemed at least. And what the radicals of the 1960s did was merely put on a mask,

238
00:23:26,730 --> 00:23:33,289
adorn as wolves, very clever sheep's clothing. Instead of the long hair locks of a radical

239
00:23:33,289 --> 00:23:37,809
wolf, they cut their hair in very stylistic forms as yuppies in the 80s. Instead of bell-bottom jeans

240
00:23:37,809 --> 00:23:41,089
and tie-dyed shirts, they donned three-piece suits and went to work getting down to business,

241
00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:46,950
as Gitlin puts it. Their radical politics did not change. Our radical politics did not change,

242
00:23:47,009 --> 00:23:51,890
however, only the methods and modes. In order to take over the institutions of learning, to shape

243
00:23:51,890 --> 00:23:56,670
the hearts and minds of the next generation, they became teachers and professors. Do you wonder at

244
00:23:56,670 --> 00:24:01,230
the thoroughgoing, systematic socialism of the educational establishment of America today?

245
00:24:02,289 --> 00:24:06,829
Why they do not give a wit about whether little Johnny can read, but passionate and exacting

246
00:24:06,829 --> 00:24:12,670
about whether he obeys and thinks right about the progressive agenda? Do you wonder why little

247
00:24:12,670 --> 00:24:18,250
Johnny cannot tune a carburetor or turn a lathe, but he can put a condom on a cucumber? Oh, and why

248
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:22,269
little Janie cannot keep a home or balance a checkbook, but knows where and how to get food stamps

249
00:24:22,269 --> 00:24:28,049
and an abortion? Do you wonder why little Johnny and Janie can repeat the mantras of the left about

250
00:24:28,049 --> 00:24:32,430
how evil America is because of slavery and capitalism and Christianity, but they know nothing of our

251
00:24:32,430 --> 00:24:36,769
constitution or its founders or even the basics of economic motive and principles of capitalism

252
00:24:36,769 --> 00:24:42,470
and the true production of wealth? Oh, this is because, dear listener, this is indeed because ever

253
00:24:42,470 --> 00:24:47,809
since the children of the 60s began to graduate from college, after trashing those campi with riots and

254
00:24:47,809 --> 00:24:52,289
protests, they began to return to them and teach the rot they tried at first to foist on America

255
00:24:52,289 --> 00:24:57,930
by violent revolution. They have worked within the system such that they are now the system.

256
00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:03,109
Oh, they have worked within the system such that they are now the system. Gone are the cries for

257
00:25:03,109 --> 00:25:08,930
disobedience and the open challenge to authority. No, now they are the system. Strangely, they call for

258
00:25:08,930 --> 00:25:14,529
obedience now and marching in lockstep to the Marxist socialist agenda. Gone are the cries for justice

259
00:25:14,529 --> 00:25:19,910
and the protests against violence and the abuse of power. Now they are the system. And now that they are

260
00:25:19,910 --> 00:25:25,289
the system, strangely, we hear from the Obama administration, things like this little ditty. If we cannot use

261
00:25:25,289 --> 00:25:31,309
the power of persuasion, we shall use the persuasion of power. Oh, do you hear the threat of implicit tyranny

262
00:25:31,309 --> 00:25:37,349
here? This is right in line with communist strategy. Use the very capitalist system against itself to

263
00:25:37,349 --> 00:25:43,609
destroy it. Oh, dear listener, this is what we are in for. When the revolution comes, we will hang the

264
00:25:43,609 --> 00:25:48,430
capitalists with the very rope they have made. We are finding indeed that that is happening to us

265
00:25:48,430 --> 00:25:55,970
now in our generation. This is the product. This is the results of the underground movements of my

266
00:25:55,970 --> 00:26:04,450
generation, the me generation. Oh, dear listener, leftists and progressives weep crocodile tears and

267
00:26:04,450 --> 00:26:09,069
they wring their hands over America's imperialistic wars. They shout peace, peace when there is no peace.

268
00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:15,589
Dear listener, I submit to you that we are reaping now the fruits of my generation. It's time to turn

269
00:26:15,589 --> 00:26:21,609
this around, dear brothers and sisters. Time for the next generations to turn this around. My generation

270
00:26:21,609 --> 00:26:27,589
has spoiled what has been handed to them and we see them ruining and destroying America now from

271
00:26:27,589 --> 00:26:33,950
within. It is time to turn this around. This has been Pastor David Bass challenging. Pray, dear listener,

272
00:26:34,089 --> 00:26:40,650
pray, dear listener, that we can yet redeem what has been left to us. Redeem, pull from the fire,

273
00:26:40,809 --> 00:26:45,990
salvage yet a heritage from our history. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

274
00:26:45,990 --> 00:26:51,049
Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and

275
00:26:51,049 --> 00:26:53,930
Boulevard, 523-0196.