The Absurd Report

America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.”

As Britannica notes, the term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

Does such a group of subversive agents’ intent upon undermining American unity actually exist today? If they do, who are they, what are their methods and what is their goal?

Methods of a Fifth Column

Britannica states that “A cardinal technique of the fifth column is the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation under attack and, particularly, into positions of policy decision and national defense.”

In America, there are those who “make policy” and those who “influence” policy.

We call the “policy makers” elected officials. Politicians decide national policy, including matters of national defense. But to be an effective fifth column, agents must meld into all facets of society, gaining positions of power to make or influence policy.

When it comes to positions of influence over policy, there is no more influential power in America today than that of the media.

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