2The left, forever discounting a glaring hypocrisy, has typically resorted to deception to further its collectivist goals. Neglecting the steady degradation of ethical norms, liberal elites attempted to manipulate vulnerable groups to maintain a tenuous mastery over exceptional American culture with blatant and pervasive lies. Century-old progressivism fostered, and a great depression prompted flirtation with socialism and statism. A world war disrupted that delusion and prosperity followed. Amidst epic affluence, the sixties erupted in civil unrest that radicalized a pampered generation. Subverting education, entertainment and media, abetted by aself-serving, bureaucratic swamp, the left duped their successors to doubt and undermine civic institutions-producing na ve Utopian dreamers who shun enterprise and debate. Instead, they expect universal incomes and guaranteed outcomes. Deprived of historical perspective, whining malcontents lack foundational, logical thought. Brandishing a restricted vocabulary of political correctness, hobbled by emotional frailty, victims are capable only of uttering inanities: words are violence, abolish the police; then scream for help when preyed upon. Liberal pols and wokie elites refrain from condemning riotous destruction to offer virtuous support in mouthings and money, and are surprised when the mob turns on them for not being fervent enough in the spasmodic orgy of protest and anarchy. A populist resurgence has exposed brainwashing and victimology as merely a means to a dystopian end where the ultimate objective is control; to exert complete power over other people's lives. The unexpected challenge to theleft-and their Democrat party-has put the miscreants back on their collective hooves. It is now up to a common-sense majority to demand freedom, truth and ethical conduct from all participants in America's future. The time has come to call out the lies.