that the portal to the darkness of america for me was woodrow wilson. i hate this guy. woodrow wilson would answer that no. he wasn't alone. he had a whole team of people around him. and we have never untangled ourselves from this thinking since. tonight, we are going to spend a little time with edward bernais and marvin alasky. he was a guy who was a communist and he saw the light and he went, holy cow! no, that's not the answer. that's not the answer. he actually found that while he was over in russia. you will meet him tonight. but history continues to repeat over and over and over again. back around the turn of the century, during world war i when woodrow wilson was in the office here, the progressives, they were called the fabian