During a Wisconsin GOP event on Tuesday, former Trump cabinet member Dr. Ben Carson claimed that proponents of the 'goals of communism' are still attempting to 'fundamentally change' the United States.
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00:00You know, if you go back and you look at the congressional record from January the 10th, 1963, over 60 years ago,
00:11you will see read into the congressional record by Congressman Hurlong of Florida, the 45 goals of communism in America.
00:22What they were going to do to fundamentally change this nation.
00:27Things like gaining control of the public school systems and the teacher unions so you can indoctrinate children.
00:38Gaining control of the media and of Hollywood so that you could manipulate the thinking of the people.
00:49Making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy.
00:56Denigrating the role of the traditional family.
01:01Driving wedges between children and their parents.
01:06Getting rid of God in the public arena.
01:11And the list goes on and on. And when you look at it, it's the things that are happening in our society today.
01:19That's how they fundamentally changed America.
01:23You know, we think we won the Cold War.
01:26But they were playing a much longer range game.
01:30Manipulating us, destroying our value system, and it's very effective.
01:38And dividing the people.
01:40Dividing the people on the basis of race, age, income, gender, religion, political affiliation, you name it.
01:53Driving wedges.
01:55And Jesus said it best. He said a house divided against itself cannot stand.
02:00Never has stood, never will stood.
02:03And that's why it is so vitally important that we each use our spheres of influence to try to bring some sobriety and some unity and values back to our country.
02:19You know, I think most Americans do have good solid values.
02:27One of the things I discovered when I was running for president, and you know, that's an interesting story in itself,
02:34because I never had any intention of going into the political arena.
02:38Fifteen years ago, if you'd told me I would have been in the political arena, I'd have told you you were totally crazy.
02:43You were delusional.
02:45But, you know, after the prayer breakfast speech of 2013, everybody was saying, you ought to run for president.
02:52I said, these people are crazy.
02:55And I said, if I just ignore them, it'll all go away.
02:59But it didn't go away.
03:01Everywhere I went, people had run, been, run signs, and I had over 500,000 petitions in my office.
03:07I finally said, Lord, if you really want me to run for president, you have to give me all the things that a person who runs for president has,
03:15like an organization and a Rolodex with all the important names and a lot of money.
03:23And I didn't have any of those things, so I said, I'm not going to develop them, Lord, so you have to provide them.
03:29Next thing I knew, they were all there.
03:31And our organization was raising more money a month than the RNC.
03:35It was incredible.
03:37But as I traveled around the country, the thing that impressed me the most,
03:42the smallest little hamlets in Alabama or North Dakota to the largest cities,
03:49was that most of the people had common sense and values.
03:56But what they lacked was courage.
04:01Most people would just stand in the corner and stare at their feet when a discussion or an argument came up,
04:08rather than speak up for what they believed in.
04:12And that's a significant problem for us.
04:16That's how some of these ideas that make no sense whatsoever, like men playing in women's sports,
04:25that's how those things were able to flourish, because people who actually know better don't speak up.
04:34You don't have to be mean and nasty.
04:38Some people say that's my default, that I'm a nice person.
04:45But niceness doesn't mean softness.
04:50You can have values and principles that you stick to very hard.
04:53You just don't have to kill people in the process.
04:57And it's something that we need to learn.
05:00We need to teach that to our children, how to have discussions.
05:07You're told from the time that you're a little child,
05:10there are two things that you never discuss in public,
05:13religion and politics.
05:15Those are the exact things we need to be discussing.