You don’t need tanks to take a country. You need the levers (the infrastructure): money, land, movement, speech, labor, food, schools. Capture those—gradually—and the symbols can stay while sovereignty (bait and switch) drains away. In that slow exchange, good—liberty ordered by morals that yields freedom—gets swapped for what only looks good: the soft tyranny of … Continue reading The Ten (plus) Original Choke Points: How Elites (Communists) Can Capture a Nation (America) Without Changing the Flag (The Pattern)