IToday was a beautiful spring morning, full of promise, the bird calls and heady scent of flowers portending new beginnings and a renewal of body and spirit. As I walked to the Metro station to catch the Orange line train that wouild transport me to work, my appreciation of this fine, sunny morning was spoiled when I saw . . . them.
The Larouchies.
A trio of geezers blocked the station entrance, shouting that Lyndon LaRouche has a plan for Iraq as they shoved their printed propaganda at passersby. After I exited at Court House station, another set of septagenarians were there pestering folks just trying to get to their jobs.
Do these people not know that Lyndon LaRouche is nuts, off his gourd, a few fries short of a Happy meal? And why is it always, and I mean always, crotchety old folks evangelizing for Larouche like the cult leader he really is? Is retirement that boring that these nursing home refugees have to join looney tune fringe parties? Whatever happened to playing canasta or do-it-yourself projects in the garage? If they have to put their innate fussbudgetry to work, why not campaign for a candidate who isn’t certifiably insane?
I’m not picking on old people, just wondering why so many of his cultists are elderly folks who ought to know better than to support a total loon for President.
Last summer, we took a day’s vacation in a charming little town. As we walked up the street, we saw that the Laruchies had two separate tables set up, buttonholing passersby about the evils of Bush and I think exhorting them to register to vote.
OK, nothing too weird about that.
EXCEPT, that this charming little villiage was in Quebec.
Quebec is in Canada*.
Last time I looked, Canadians can’t vote in American elections.
So whatinhell do the Laruchies think they are doing???
*that could change, but that’s a whole 'nother story…
It’s not. He’s popular among the college-aged set as well. In fact, anytime I see any Larouche literature, it’s always around those in their late teens/early twenties, or in the universities that they inhabit.
Okay, I apologize in advance for my ignorance. But I’d like my ignorance dispelled.
How, exactly, is LaRouche nuts? I’ve run into his supporters before, and found them annoying leftist fanatics, but nothing they’ve ever said- “Bush is evil, Cheney really runs the show, Bush is selling us out to Big Oil”- is anything I wouldn’t be surprised to hear from a Nader supporter or even Diogenes or elucidator. I know LaRouche spent some time in jail for campaign contribution violations, and that he blames that on Democrats in Virginia conspiring to keep him out of elections, but even that doesn’t strike me as an outlandish claim in the land of Marion Barry.
The only thing I’ve heard a supporter say that struck me as a bit off was someone shouting about how what we needed was a return to the economic policies of FDR, “which worked for us then, and will work for us now!” To which I could only think, “but we’ve already electrified the South.”
The summary is that he’s a paranoid personality with huge delusions of granduer. His theories about how the world really works would put a lesser conspiracy theorist to shame.
John, if you ever see me defending the argument that the Queen of England is the kingpin of an international heroin ring, or starting threads about how “they” tried to kill me, then you can call Lyndon LaRouche a leftie. Dude is flat-out nuts.
Bunch of us ISO members were out at a rally in front of the White House a couple of weeks ago, and a young LaRouche “supporter” who was helping table nearby fell into conversation with us. He informed us that he was pretty much homeless, and that the LaRouche campaign had offered to provide him with room and board in return for tabling and passing out LaRouche literature. :mad: That shit just burns my ass. Not only is he nuts, he exploits people so he can get his political message out.
Not to mention those goddamn car-mounted megaphones playing messages he recorded driving around for hours on end.
Horray! first time I ever beat any of you speedy typin’ bastardos to anything!!
Pardon me while I got dance a small victory dance, then I’m going to visit your link and read The Rest of the Story on the OKC bombing.
