The Circus: Your Ticket to Understanding America's Totalitarian Marxism

By Michael Matthews

This book is your ticket to understanding America's Totalitarian Marxism—that new ATM Circus crisscrossing North America (and beyond). You will have a better foundation than the average person on the street for comprehending and discussing critical race theory, wokeism, and social justice. Plus, you will know what to do about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: May 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9780228892939

Michael Matthews

Mike Matthews is an author, podcast host, trainer, and the founder and CEO of Legion, the #1 bestselling brand of all-natural sports supplements in the world, which he started in 2014. He lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, their two children, and two Dachshunds named Penny and Olive.

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The Circus

Your Ticket to Understanding America’s Totalitarian Marxism

Michael Matthews

The Circus

Copyright © 2023 by Michael Matthews

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The History Of The Circus

Chapter 1 Karl Marx

Chapter 2 The Frankfurt School

Chapter 3 North American Universities

The Mystery Of The Circus

Chapter 4 Critical Race Theory

Chapter 5 Wokeism

Chapter 6 Social Revenge

The Strategy Of The Circus

Chapter 7 Divide

Chapter 8 Silence

Chapter 9 Conquer

Conclusion

Appendices

Glossary

Timelines

Poor Charts

Plan Of Action Template

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Introduction

What in the world is going on? Can this societal debacle really be happening? To us? Really!? Maybe we’ll wake up and discover this was only a brief setback in the otherwise North American success story. What am I talking about? I’m talking about two cultured nationsi that are seeing public restrooms pop up across the land with signs displaying a stick figure that is half male, half female. The wording on the sign is, "We don’t care." I’m talking about two military powers that currently have newly-engineered fighting forces where all the men and women easily meet the identical low standards of strength and endurance. The upper levels of these nations are focused primarily on race, gender, and equity. I’m talking about God-fearing nations that, in the past, would not have entertained the slightest possibility of putting pornographic material in the children’s section of public libraries. I’m talking about educated nations where the citizens grew up knowing how to read, write, and do basic math—all before the age of ten. Today, those basics are secondary to the woke agenda. Old-fashioned merit and discipline are being replaced by an individual’s line-up on an intersectionality chart. I’m talking about sensible nations where everyone would have burst out in hysterical laughter if a person being vetted for a top judiciary body could not provide a simple definition of woman. I realize I have a huge advantage because I was a wildlife biologist in days gone by. However, I do have several grade-school-age grandchildren, who are neither supreme court justices nor biologists, but they can still give a pretty accurate answer. I am talking about respected nations where the executive branches of one of these nations would not have publicly pushed and then bragged about having the most LGBTQ+ laden staff in the nation’s history. I am talking about how the once relatively sanitary downtown sections in larger cities of these nations now resemble above-ground sewers. I could go on and on.

What in the world is going on? A circus. That’s what is going on. We have in our two North American nations a contrived carnival of absurdities, a full-fledged festival of foolishness. A circus can be a fun place, but it can also be a place of nonsense—with strange-looking people dressed in non-fashion clothing doing not-normal things. In a word, it’s not reality. Exactly—it’s a circus. This book is a wake-up call. This is no time to play the ostrich.

Let’s explore this circus analogy a bit more. North America’s most famous circus, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, began with two men and a huge elephant joining forces in the late 1800s. P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey had been rivals in the international circus business. But the economic realities of World War I brought them together. They shook hands and began what became known as The Greatest Show on Earth. One of their star attractions was a larger-than-life elephant named Jumbo. The two men bought this oversized elephant from a zoo in London and immediately made him a major part of their show. For one of their more grandiose publicity stunts, they had Jumbo, plus a small herd of additional elephants and camels, parade across the newly constructed Brooklyn Bridge—to supposedly prove the bridge’s structural integrity. By the time World War I was over, the circus employed more than 1,000 people and twice that many animals—all traveling the country in 100 train cars. It was no small circus. That was America’s big-time circus back then. It was kicked off by two men and an elephant.

Today, more than a century later, we have a new national circus playing in North America. It is a very different kind of circus. Think of it like this: On the way home from a public meeting, my friend turned to me and said, Well now, that was certainly some circus! I had to agree. I knew exactly what he meant by using circus in that context. He didn’t have to explain that he was using a figure of speech. The metaphor was crystal clear. The meeting had been disorderly, contentious, irrational, and senseless. It had been a circus.

Consider another example. A group of men and women carrying baseball bats descend upon one of America’s downtown districts and proceed to smash store windows and walk off with expensive merchandise. Such lawlessness is indicative of societal meltdown. This, too, is a circus. It is irrational and senseless.

The circus highlighted herein does not consist of real-life lions, wiry acrobats, goofy clowns, cheap hot dogs, and artificially-flavored popcorn. It has no bearded ladies, two-headed calves, or really short people. There are no strong men or six clowns piling into a tiny car. This is not your grandparents’ harmless Barnum & Bailey. This circus doesn’t smell of cotton candy but rather more like a genuine barn. The old Barnum & Bailey extravaganza was the real thing; it entertained. This latest circus entangles. It is designed not for pleasure but for power. The old carnival was amusing; this new one is ominous. The old focused on fun; the new focuses on fear.

This book is your ticket to understanding America’s Totalitarian Marxism—it is your field guide to comprehending this new circus crisscrossing North America. This carnival is not content to set up its tent in only the small towns of North America. It is going for the bright lights of the big cities—Toronto, New York, Vancouver, and Seattle. This Circus is not satisfied to be on the back roads. Rather, it is busy impersonating reality, capturing minds, and stealing hearts.

Whereas that old circus began with two men and an elephant, this new one began with one man and his elephant. We will identify both in The History of the Circus. Then we will move on to view the three rings inside the circus tent (Critical Race Theory, Wokeism, and Social Revenge) in The Mystery of the Circus. The finale will look at diversity, inclusion, equity, and discrimination in The Strategy of the Circus.

Before we move on, if you know of others who would like to read about and discuss this social phenomenon, there are discussion questions at the end of each major section. This is where your group would share relevant stories, fresh-daily illustrations, current events, and the latest news circulating in the community and nation. Feel free to start a group—discuss, explore, and act.

With this introduction, we are ready to get started. "Ladies and gentlemen. Step right up. Get your ticket here." But buyer beware. Just as there are warning labels on items such as cigarette packaging, alcohol bottles, and GMO foods, this ticket only allows you inside the big tent. It does not guarantee you will be amused. In fact, much of the show would not be classified as enjoyable entertainment.

The History Of The Circus

In order to understand this phenomenon we are calling the Circus, it will help us to have a basic understanding of its history. We will use the following