The Alleged Plan to Transform the West: Obama, Elites, and the Path to Dystopia, By Chris Knight (Florida)
In her July 16, 2025, American Thinker article, Shari Goodman posits a provocative theory: that Barack Obama's 2008 promise to "fundamentally transform" America is part of a broader, deliberate agenda orchestrated by global elites to reshape the United States into a dystopian society, undermining its constitutional republic and sovereignty. Goodman's 13-step framework outlines a strategy involving multiculturalism, demographic shifts, economic destruction, and cultural erosion, purportedly driven by a coalition of Marxist, Islamist, and globalist forces, with Obama as a key figure, but not the sole actor. This piece critically examines Goodman's claims, contextualises them within broader political discourse, and explores whether this transformation is indeed underway, while acknowledging the role of elites beyond any single individual.
Goodman begins by recalling Obama's 2008 declaration, made five days before his election, that America was on the cusp of fundamental transformation. She questions why a constitutional republic rooted in self-governance would need such a transformation and suggests it serves a sinister goal: to dismantle America from within to establish a "totalitarian Marxist/Islamic New World Order" under a billionaire oligarchy. Her 13 steps, summarised below, form the backbone of this alleged plan:
1.Promote Multiculturalism: Erode patriotism and nationalism through education, institutions, and government agencies.
2.Demographic Shift via Migration: Flood urban areas with unvetted, uneducated immigrants to create a dependent underclass, fostering government control.
3.Destroy the Middle Class: Use crises like COVID-19 to shutter small businesses while favouring corporate giants, weakening economic independence.
4.Overhaul Education: Infiltrate universities with socialist, Islamist, and anti-American professors to indoctrinate youth against Western values.
5.Foment Racial Division: Implement policies like DEI and support groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter to incite unrest and division.
6.Reduce White Population: Increase minority populations to diminish the influence of the educated, affluent white middle class, seen as resistant to control.
7.Promote Antisemitism: Import Muslim populations with ingrained antisemitism to target Israel as a Western outpost.
8.Impoverish Cities: Allow foreign drug cartels to exacerbate addiction, crime, and homelessness, destabilising urban centres.
9.Elect Foreign-Loyal Candidates: Permit individuals with foreign allegiances to hold office, valuing external interests over America's.
10. Erode Christian Values: Use media to promote vulgarity, violence, and promiscuity, undermining traditional morality.
11. Fund Illegal Migration: Create tax-funded NGOs to facilitate mass migration without public consent.
12. Control Information: Consolidate media under six corporations to dominate 90% of information flow.
13. Erase Sovereignty: Open borders to allow 65 million + illegal aliens to form a "foreign nation within," diluting national identity.
Goodman argues these steps are actively unfolding, with Obama as a central figure backed by global entities like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF). She frames Trump's 2024 election, with 78 million votes, as a public rejection of this agenda, emphasising the need to support his efforts to restore the republic.
Goodman's narrative aligns with a broader conservative critique of Obama's legacy, often tied to his 2008 promise of transformation. A 2017 National Catholic Register article by Paul Kengor argues that Obama's true legacy lies in cultural shifts, particularly around sexual orientation, marriage, and family, citing the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision and policies like transgender bathroom mandates, as evidence of a deliberate redefinition of American values. Similarly, 2012 American Thinker piece claims Obama's policies aimed to transform America into a society dependent on government, marked by racial division and economic control, echoing Goodman's steps.
Goodman's portrayal of Obama as a "communist Muslim plant" orchestrated by the UN and WEF draws on rich conspiratorial material, as seen in online forums like Free Republic, where users debate whether Obama is a unique mastermind, or a typical Democrat advancing a Leftist agenda. A 2025 American Thinker article by Andrea Widburg amplifies this, citing Tulsi Gabbard's allegations that Obama orchestrated a "treasonous conspiracy" via the Russia hoax to undermine Trump's presidency, suggesting a broader effort to subvert American governance. These claims position Obama as a pivotal figure in a network of elites, politicians, billionaires, and global institutions, working to impose a dystopian order.
Posts on X, such as one by @PatriotVoiceUSA, claim "the WEF and UN are using migration to destabilise the West, with Obama as their front man," reflecting public sentiment that aligns with Goodman's thesis.
Goodman's thesis correctly identifies that no single individual could orchestrate such a transformation. The American Thinker and X posts consistently point to a broader elite network, politicians, corporate leaders, NGOs, and global institutions. For instance, a 2024 American Thinker article argues the Democratic Party, transformed by Obama, now serves global elites, not workers, echoing Goodman's oligarchy claim. The WEF's "Great Reset" and UN migration compacts, like the 2018 Global Compact for Migration, are cited as evidence of globalist agendas promoting open borders and cultural shifts.
Corporate consolidation, media bias, and tech censorship, amplified by figures like Soros and Gates, support the idea of elite coordination. A 2023 X post by @TruthSeekerUSA claims "Soros funds NGOs that push migration and chaos, while Big Tech censors dissent," reflecting public suspicion. However, attributing this solely to Obama ignores predecessors like Clinton, who deregulated media, and global trends predating his presidency.
Goodman's narrative intersects with the British free speech crisis, drawing on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill's warning that suppressing dissent assumes the censor's infallibility applies to Obama's call for regulating online "facts," which risks creating a "tyranny of prevailing opinion." The UK's decline in Article 19's rankings mirrors concerns about US speech restrictions, suggesting a Western trend toward control that aligns with Goodman's information-control step. Mill's emphasis on open debate as essential for truth and moral courage is stifled when elites, as Goodman claims, manipulate narratives through media and policy.
Many of Goodman's steps are observable: media consolidation, migration surges, cultural shifts, and middle-class decline are real trends. The US Census Bureau notes a 10% decline in real median income for small business owners from 2019 to 2023, and urban decay is evident in cities like San Francisco, where homelessness and crime have spiked.These issues stem from decades of policy, globalisation, tax codes, and cultural liberalisation, indicating that the plan has been in operation for some time.
The 2024 election of Trump, with 78 million votes, reflects public resistance, as Goodman notes. X posts like @MagaStrong's "Trump's win is a middle finger to the globalists" suggest a populist backlash against perceived elite overreach. However, systemic issues, corporate power, bureaucratic inertia, and global economic pressures, persist beyond any one administration, supporting Goodman's view that elites, not just Obama, drive the transformation.
Shari Goodman's 13-step plan to transform America into a dystopia captures real trends, migration, cultural shifts, economic decline, and information control, that threaten the republic's foundations. While Obama's rhetoric and policies, from his 2008 promise to his 2025 censorship advocacy, fuel suspicion, the evidence suggests a broader elite network of globalists is at play. The dystopia may be underway, but as Mill suggested, rational dissent and moral courage offer a path of resistance.
"What If the Obama Plan to 'Fundamentally Transform' America is Already Underway?
Many of us can recall when Barack Obama eagerly proclaimed on the eve of his election "we are five days away from transforming the United States of America" to thundering cheers of adoration back in 2008.
Very few failed to ask why America, a constitutional republic, with self-governance as its cornerstone, would need a transformation; and what would America be transformed into?
What if Barack Obama was a fraud, a communist Muslim plant ensconced into the highest echelons of our government by the U.N. and the World Economic Forum to advance a totalitarian Marxist/Islamic New World Order under the auspices of today's new ruling class of billionaires (oligarchy) akin to the old feudal system of yesterday?
America, a superpower, would need to be destroyed from within for their mission to succeed.
What steps would need to occur for their mission to become reality?
Here is my view on what that might be:
Step I: Introduce and promote multiculturalism to erode patriotism and nationalism in all forms of education, institutions, and government agencies.
Step II: A demographical shift in population via third world migration of millions of unvetted illegal uneducated poor peasants into urban American cities throughout the land dependent on government. Dependency breeds control while an educated populace breeds a middle class.
Step III: The destruction of the middle class. The COVID pandemic forced America's mom and pop operations to close shop while large corporate owned stores and businesses were permitted to stay open. Many Americans were forced out of business and never to recover.
Step IV: An overhaul of our educational system by infiltrating American universities and replacing college professors with socialists, Marxists, and Islamists with a mission to indoctrinate America's youth with communism and anti-Americanism while promoting the notion that America is a Western Imperialist Racist Colonial state and not worthy of preserving.
Step V: Promote ethnic and racial division via public policies such as DEI while instituting and utilizing organizations such as antifa and Black Lives Matter to foment unrest through protests and riots on university campuses and blue urban areas throughout the United States.
Step VI: Reduce America's white population while increasing the number of blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims. American whites are proportionally better educated, affluent, and represent a significant portion of the middle class; therefore, they are less likely to be dependent on government and government control. They have a history of rejecting communism.
Step VII: Foment Antisemitism and Jew hate. Although Jews are a fraction of the global population, they are at the forefront of ingenuity and not likely to be controllable; thus, a democratic Jewish state poses a grave danger to the aims and aspirations of the globalists. The importation of Muslims and their engrained antisemitism into the West at the bequest of the U.N.is a ploy in their quest to destroy Western civilization.
Step VIII: Impoverish American cities by allowing China, Mexico, and foreign drug cartels to promote and advance drug addiction, mental illness, homelessness, crime and death in cities throughout the land.
Step IX: Permit and encourage foreign nationals and those with foreign loyalties who have taken out U.S. citizenship to run for elected office as a means to formulate policies for America that represent the interests of their home countries while undermining American interests.
Step X: Erase Judeo/Christian values by utilizing music, T.V. and film to promote vulgarity, incivility, violence, and promiscuity instead of chastity, civility, marriage, and family.
Step XI: Create tax-funded NGOs to fund the illegal population transfer of millions of third world migrants without the knowledge and consent of the taxpayers.
Step XII: Control the source of information. Only six corporations' control 90% of the information we see and read.
Step XIII: Erase American sovereignty through open borders and the transplant of 65 million illegal aliens who make up a foreign nation within this nation.
Though some may discount this theory as conspiracy, it is noteworthy that all thirteen steps are currently in play as America unravels at the seams.
The overwhelming election of President Trump by 78 million Americans is our attempt to halt the transformation, restore the republic, and regain our sovereignty as an independent nation with representative governance.
It is a yearning that lives in the heart of every American yearning to be free.
President Trump is only one-man fighting foes from within and without. The least we can do is aid him in the battle.
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