# Lyndon Larouch and the

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyndon-larouch-and-the/241232>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 21, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyndon-larouch-and-the/241232 "2004-04-21T15:59:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyndon-larouch-and-the/241232/21 "2004-04-22T12:33:00Z")

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Somehow I thought LaRouche was dead. I must be thinking of Pat Paulsen.

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> 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.

Funny, I feel the same way about Republicans. But, seeing as how these deluded seniors would probably vote for Bush if there was no LaRouche, I say “Shine on, you crazy diamond!”

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyndon-larouch-and-the/241232/22 "2004-04-22T14:55:59Z")

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LaRouche encompasses & transcends Left/Right US politics. In the 1960s, he organized the Trotskyite ultra-left US Labor Party, while through the 1970s, he adopted a parody of Birchite CFR-Conspiracy Theory & a hardline anti-Soviet stance to appeal to fringe conservatives. By the early 80s, he was waxing eloquent about Platonic, Classical Music loving, Spiritual Idealism (his side) against Aristotelian, Romanticist/Rock music-making, materialist empiricism (the British Royal-Masonic-Zionist-debauched-racist-drug pushing-Satanic-Rockefeller- irrationalist-Christian fundamentalist, etc etc coalition against Western civilization).

The John Birch Society in the mid-70s was warning their sympathisers about getting caught up with him.

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyndon-larouch-and-the/241232/23 "2004-04-22T17:07:39Z")

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> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> OK, nothing too weird about that.
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> EXCEPT, that this charming little villiage was in Quebec.
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> Quebec is in Canada\*.

So? In Canada, there’s at least one chance in a hundred to happen upon an American. I’ve seen LaRouchers in _Sweden_. No jokes.

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