How much truth in “Opinion from a Former Judge” … Grok?
Posted By RichC on December 4, 2025
After reading an opinion from several years ago, but also after recent events, rising 
tensions and political divide in the U.S. … the same article is being passed around social media again. The writings seemed almost too spot on so I was interested in knowing how much truth there was to it — so I’m asking AI’s Grok.
Nevertheless, it should be obvious to nearly all though who pay attention, that the leftist strategy is real … and reminds me of the radicals from the 1960-70s (see previous post) and Saul Alinsky‘s Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971).
Verification of the Claim
The “Opinion from a Former Judge” letter you provided is a real piece written by Keith M. Alber, a retired California Superior Court judge. It was originally published as a letter to the editor in local newspapers starting around 2021 (e.g., in the *Napa Valley Register* and others), and it has since gone viral on social media. Alber, who was 85 at the time of writing, explicitly references a half-page in a political science textbook he encountered during his first year of college in 1954, when he was a student at Napa College (now Napa Valley College). He describes it as outlining hypothetical “steps to overturn a democracy” as a “possible diabolic nightmare”—a thought experiment on vulnerabilities in democratic systems, likely in the context of Cold War-era fears about communism or authoritarian subversion.
However, the core claim—that these exact nine steps were printed verbatim in a 1954 textbook—appears unsubstantiated and likely exaggerated or misremembered. Alber himself admitted in interviews (e.g., with fact-checkers) that he could not recall the textbook’s title, author, or publisher, despite extensive prompting. No such book matching this description has been identified in historical records, library catalogs, or academic archives from 1954 (or surrounding years). Searches for key phrases from the steps (e.g., “foment racial strife,” “cause distrust of police authority,” “swarm the nation’s borders,” “control all balloting”) yield no matches in pre-2021 publications. The list seems tailored to contemporary U.S. political concerns (e.g., border security, election integrity, racial tensions), which weren’t phrased this way in mid-20th-century texts.
Possible Origins or Inspirations
A month or so ago, 
I hope others recognize what “we” are doing to the U.S. Dollar? 