Formula for the Non-Violent Destruction of a Nation

I've been attached to this planet as it journeys around the sun for five decades now, not including my debut and the brief time I crawled around in diapers.  As a casual observer, concerned citizen, and fifty-something American, I've practically seen it all: suicidal terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers packed with innocent lives, belligerent third-world leaders boasting that we are in their nuclear cross-hairs, promises of dirty bomb detonation on American soil, an economy that refuses to stop plummeting.  And if this sluggish economy fails to snap out of its prolonged lethargy before much longer, The Great Depression II might be among tomorrow's headlines.

Mushroom clouds suspended over American cities as millions die.  Forgive me if I postpone discussing that cheery subject until some later time.  For now, I will concentrate on destruction of the non-violent kind—the kind you don't see coming until it is too late.

Having seen the US slip from greatness to worldwide laughingstock in a frighteningly short period of time, my unique vantage point, along with an hour's reflection, have allowed me to piece together a recipe for the destruction of a great nation.  While this is not among my personal aspirations, it seems that these methods could have been used successfully to compromise the integrity of this once great land.   (Please don't summon the FBI or Secret Service as I am neither touting nor encouraging this type of activity.  This is merely the product of personal speculation tinged with awe, a post-game analysis of how it is my country has been so quickly ruined.)

I continue with the formula in a generic form:

To achieve this end against some targeted government, perform as many of the following as possible, in no specific order.  Sufficient time may be required to elapse between events so that they may be allowed to fester in the collective consciousness of the populace in order to realize maximum psychological devastation; tweak this interval as necessary.  Most steps may be carried out concurrently with others:

1. Assassinate the president, preferably in full view of millions of adoring faithful (television is excellent for this).  The more popular he is at the time of his death, the better;
2. Normalize indecency such as pornography, homosexuality, and abuse of women;
3. Marginalize decency; criminalize it if necessary;
   
4. Silence churches and synagogues while preserving free expression of the indecent;
   
5. Encourage the slaughter of babies while decrying capital punishment of convicted killers;
6. Destroy marriage and the family;
7. Vilify all authority, especially the police;
   
8. Encourage youth to speak freely without fear of reprisal; criminalize effective measures of discipline, especially corporal punishment;
   
9. Worship vanity, professional athletes, and entertainment while maligning reason and the sciences;
10. Establish an oligarchy and ensure its power is absolute and cannot be usurped, especially by popular vote; use the power of the oligarchy to protect indecency; impose undue hardship upon anyone exemplifying decency;
11. Utilize monolithic state-run educational institutions to instill immorality in all students beginning in kindergarten; redefine immoral as moral and indecent as decent; teach these principles as enlightenment;
12. If there is a constitution which propounds individual freedoms, especially free speech and the right of self-preservation with firearms, abolish it; replace it with a code emphasizing the collective good;
    
13. Discourage open dialog at universities in favor of belief in unproven theories and fantasy such as Darwinian Evolution;
14. Remove all historical mention of war heroes and great people of the Bible;
15. Disparage and discredit the Bible;
    
16. Replace masculine role models with those whose gender is not clearly defined;
17. Encourage advancement of inferior workers in the name of civil rights;
    
18. Mock any display of national pride; ostracize any such practitioners of it;
19. Impose an unwritten mantra codifying the protection of indecency; label it with a term that will be easily remembered—something tidy like "political correctness"; and ensure that it is upheld at all costs;
20. Confer civil rights upon practitioners of indecency, thus providing them with legal protection.
    

The application of these twenty methods of attack against a government will cause that government to collapse quickly from within.  As we have witnessed, an unseen force has neutralized the United States in fewer than fifty years by adhering to this tidy playbook.

The embodiment of evil, the monster from Greece we know as George Soros was not consulted in the preparation of this document.