A Choice Not an Echo
by Phyllis Schlafly, originally published in 1964; Updated and Expanded Edition, 2014, (Hardback, (phyllisschlafly.com); original edition also available. Reviewed by Mary Byrne, Ed.D.
Americans are engaged in a fierce battle to exercise their constitutional right to elect their choice for the next president of the United States, and the fiercest fighter in that battle is the Republican presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump. 69, 70 His fight against a globalist power clique’s control of the 2024 election is reminiscent of the fight Phyllis Schlafly described in her seminal 1964 book, A Choice Not an Echo. 71 Phyllis exposed the “invisible primaries” conducted by elitists to put their preferred candidates in key government offices. Once in position, these elitists’ “choices” pull their levers of power to pass legislation and authorize Federal spending in favor of the elites’ globalist agenda.
The first edition of Phyllis’s book explained how the House of Rockefeller wielded political power to ensure that the constitutional conservative senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, did not interrupt their short-range plans to make Nelson Rockefeller the 1964 Republican nominee, who would then further their long-range plans of orchestrating a world economy run by a centralized governance system.
They were not successful, in part because of Phyllis’s book. Goldwater upset the elitists’ plans and became the Republican nominee. Though he did not win the general election against Lyndon Johnson, Goldwater’s primary win changed the course of American history. Thirty-five years later, the Orlando Sentinel wrote:
- Rockefeller’s defeat was decisive for the Eastern establishment that had dominated the Grand Old Party financially and politically for decades. Power shifted [from the Wall Street Republicans] decisively south and west. The Goldwater campaign gave Ronald Reagan his first national platform, and two years later, he was governor of California. Reagan redefined the Republican mainstream... 72
Phyllis explained that she wrote the book because “[she] believed that the most constructive thing [she] could do ... was to give our people the facts ... which would assist them to reject the efforts of the little clique of kingmakers who wanted to force upon us another “me too” candidate who would pull his punches and evade the vital issues.... I made my decision in light of what I believe to be the best interests of the America I love...” (p. 199).
She updated and expanded the book in her 2014, 50th Anniversary edition with 13 additional chapters organized under the heading, “The Battle Continues: 1968-2016.” In that edition, she exposed Jimmy Carter as a member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission — “a power clique of some two hundred banking, commercial, political, and communications leaders” — whose members were placed into the Carter administration’s cabinet and sub-cabinet positions (p. 166).
She credited Goldwater with exposing “that those who nominated [Democrat] Jimmy Carter and staffed his administration were essentially the same crowd who had controlled Republican presidential nominations for so many years and that they had the same goals” (p. 167). In so many words, Phyllis was quoting Goldwater to expose the Republican-Democrat uni-party orchestrated by David Rockefeller.
Phyllis’s timeless work remains an essential political guide for those who value freedom, and should be required reading for all those seeking to preserve it.
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