Pressure from Below and Pressure from Above

The following quote comes from chapter 7 of Gary Allen's 1971 classic, None Dare Call It Conspiracy.

The American middle class is being squeezed to death by a vise. . . .  In the streets we have avowed revolutionary groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (which was started by the League for Industrial Democracy, a group with strong C.F.R. ties), the Black Panthers, the Yippies, the Young Socialist Alliance. These groups chant that if we don't "change" America, we will lose it. "Change" is a word we hear over and over. By "change" these groups mean Socialism. Virtually all members of these groups sincerely believe that they are fighting the Establishment. In reality they are an indispensible ally of the Establishment in fastening Socialism on all of us. The naive radicals think that under Socialism the "people" will run everything. Actually, it will be a clique of Insiders in total control, consolidating and controlling all wealth. That is why these schoolboy Lenins and teenage Trotskys are allowed to roam free and are practically never arrested or prosecuted. They are protected. If the Establishment wanted the revolutionaries stopped, how long do you think they would be tolerated?

Instead, we find that most of these radicals are the recipients of largesse from major foundations or are receiving money from the government through the War on Poverty. The Rothschild-Rockefeller-C.F.R. Insiders at the top "surrender to the demands" for Socialism from the mobs below. The radicals are doing the work of those whom they hate the most.

Just change the names of the radical groups, and you see the strategy has not changed. The street radicals cry for change (pressure from below), and the politicians in the Establishment's pocket grant them concessions.

The middle class, frightened by the radicals cries out to the Establishment politicos for "protection" which always entails a loss of freedom. The Establishment consolidates power (pressure from above). This has been going on since long before Allen published his book, and it's still going on today.