The Satanic Roots of Ideological Subversion: How Demoralization Plays Right Into Total Depravity

Folks, if you’ve been paying attention to the world around us, you’ve probably noticed how everything seems upside down these days. Truth gets twisted, right is called wrong, and wrong gets paraded as some kind of victim. Yuri Bezmenov, that former KGB defector, nailed it back in the 80s when he spilled the beans on how the Soviets planned to take down societies like ours without firing a shot. He called it “ideological subversion,” and the first step, demoralization, sounds an awful lot like the Devil’s playbook. As a Christian who’s spent years digging into God’s Word, I see this not just as sneaky politics, but as a straight-up satanic attack that exploits the sin-enslaved nature of the lost. The doctrine of Total Depravity explains how this works. Let’s break it down, because if we don’t call this out with biblical truth, we’re just playing into the enemy’s hands.

Bezmenov laid it out plain: Demoralization takes 15-20 years to brainwash a generation through schools, media, and even churches. He said it’s about eroding moral standards so people can’t tell right from wrong anymore. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information,” he warned in his lectures. Facts, proofs, even pictures—none of it sinks in. In law and order, it’s especially nasty: Criminals get painted as poor victims of society, while cops and real victims are treated like the bad guys. “A criminal is not a criminal, actually. He’s a defendant… Nice fellow,” Bezmenov quipped. Meanwhile, the justice system gets mocked as oppressive.

His KGB buddies like Anatoliy Golitsyn, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Stanislav Levchenko backed this up with their own stories. Golitsyn talked about long-term deceptions to make the West doubt its own foundations. Pacepa exposed how they used “disinformation” to frame the innocent and hype up the guilty, stirring up chaos in the name of liberation. Levchenko showed how they infiltrated media to divide people, turning protectors into villains. It’s all connected, a calculated inversion of morality that leaves societies ripe for collapse.

We can see the media doing this. They’ve been at it for a long time now. We can see the corrupt leftist Prosecutors punishing 70 year old grandmothers for praying outside of abortion clinics while letting thugs kill grandmothers in the streets. We can see the media glorifying the criminal, and demonizing the victims. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “How can this be? How can anyone see this as good, and just? This is madness!” Here is the answer. It is intentional. The satanic left uses communism to increase human death, and suffering. They are anti-human, because they are anti-Christ. If you can get under this idea, and grab onto it, you can finally open your eyes to the evil that is corrupting our world.

Now, let’s get into the Bible here. This isn’t just human cunning; it’s satanic to the core because it preys on total depravity. Romans 3:10-18 spells it out: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” We’re all corrupted mind, heart, and sin-enslaved from the start. Demoralization doesn’t invent that; it fans the flames, making us even more blind to God’s truth. Jeremiah 17:9 calls the heart “deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.” Without the Holy Spirit opening our eyes, we’re suckers for these lies.

Satan’s the master inverter. Jesus pegged him in John 8:44 as “a liar and the father of lies,” with zero truth in him. He flips God’s order: Isaiah 5:20 woes those who “call evil good and good evil.” Sound familiar? Not prosecuting criminals while treating victims like suspects? That’s perverting justice, which Deuteronomy 16:19 flat-out forbids. Proverbs 17:15 says justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous is “an abomination to the Lord.” This fake mercy Bezmenov described sympathizing with crooks while slamming the law, it’s void of any real goodness. It’s demonic, straight from the “prince of the power of the air” in Ephesians 2:2, working through “sons of disobedience.”

I’ve seen this play out in my own life and in the church. Back when I was younger, I bought into some cultural lies until the Word of God me straight. Just like Bezmenov’s “useful idiots” who help their own downfall, we Christians can get duped if we’re not vigilant. History shows it too. Think of how false prophets like Joseph Smith twisted truth, as I’ve written before. The early Church fathers like Augustine warned against letting sin slide, tying back to God’s command in Genesis to be fruitful, not fearful.

In the end, this demoralization is satanic because it rejects God’s absolute standards for a mushy relativism where everyone does “what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). But praise God, there’s hope in the Gospel. Though we’re totally depraved, Christ regenerates us (John 3:3), giving us power to resist. Put on that armor of God from Ephesians 6:11, folks. Discern the lies, proclaim biblical justice, and repent if you’ve been swayed. Trust Him over the world’s schemes—because in Christ, the light crushes the darkness every time.

What do you think? Spotting this in today’s headlines? Drop a comment and let’s discuss. And if this hits home, share it—time to wake up the Church.