The John Birch Society Is Back

[mystery-ak]

 The John Birch Society Is Back

Bircher ideas, once on the fringe, are increasingly commonplace in today’s GOP and espoused by friends in high places. And the group is ready to make the most of it.

By John Savage

July 16, 2017

On an unseasonably warm Saturday in January, Jan Carter, a short, graying, 75-year-old retiree, appears pleased. The Central Texas Chapter of the John Birch Society, which Carter leads, is conducting a workshop titled “The Constitution Is the Solution” in the farming town of Holland—home to 1,200 residents, three churches, one stoplight and an annual corn festival. Carter was unsure if anyone would drive to such a remote area early on a weekend morning to get lectured about the Constitution, but, one by one, people are showing, renewing Carter’s “hope that the country can be saved.”

In the Holland Church of Christ, around the corner from a main street lined with abandoned buildings, Carter sits down to talk. She says that the John Birch Society—a group she was convinced could save the nation from a global conspiracy of leftists and communists more than half a century ago—has come roaring back to life in the nick of time. The more she thinks about the situation, the more she sees parallels to the 1950s and 1960s: evil domestic and international terrorists threatening to undo all that is good and holy in the United States.

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/16/the-john-birch-society-is-alive-and-well-in-the-lone-star-state-215377

[edpc]

From the article......

Gone is the organization’s past obsession with ending the supposed communist plot to achieve mind-control through water fluoridation.

I'm not a JBS follower, but they never believed this nonsense.  That's something Gen. Ripper from Dr Strangelove might say.  They believed the government had no right to mass medicate people and it was up to individuals to choose what measures they took.

[endicom]

Will TBRers smear Cruz with 'JBS' as some did Trump with 'alt-right'?

Stay tuned for another thrilling episode of...

[Wingnut]

That is great news!  I'm a faithfull follower of Brother John Burch And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church!
This summer I plan to take a trip to LA...via Omaha.

[TomSea]

JBS messed up with how they treated Eisenhower.

They've worked for years to try to gain back some credibility, even the New American is the John Birch Society but without the stigma of the name.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/  (or at least, closely related)

The Islamic Terror Scare of today, does seem to have parallels with the Red Scare of the 1950s and 1960s. Someone needs to pay attention.  As the article says, it does seem to be a similar situation.

Last summer, I started a thread on them in the general area: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,209427.0.html

Often okay, I might not agree with all of their positions. Verify.

[endicom]

JBS messed up with how they treated Eisenhower.

They've worked for years to try to gain back some credibility, even the New American is the John Birch Society but without the stigma of the name.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/  (or at least, closely related)

The Islamic Terror Scare of today, does seem to have parallels with the Red Scare of the 1950s and 1960s. Someone needs to pay attention.  As the article says, it does seem to be a similar situation.

Last summer, I started a thread on them in the general area: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,209427.0.html

Often okay, I might not agree with all of their positions. Verify.

Screaming "Commie!" at everything that moved was a boon to the real commies.

[truth_seeker]

[TomSea]

From the article, this is where they messed up back in the day:

...alleging, for instance, that the cabal of communist agents atop the U.S. government included President Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles among its ranks—ate away at any relationship with Buckley, who saw such ramblings as a danger to conservatives.

They might say they meant something different, I think I've heard that but how out of touch can one be to say this about Pres. Eisenhower? Wacky.

[edpc]

Screaming "Commie!" at everything that moved was a boon to the real commies.

Odd that the JBS president in 1983 was a democrat congressman and was killed by communists in the KAL 007 shoot down.

[austingirl]

My first political memory. My dad was a big Goldwater man. AUH2O! I think we were the only Republicans in our neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

[Sanguine]

Will TBRers smear Cruz with 'JBS' as some did Trump with 'alt-right'?

Stay tuned for another thrilling episode of...

Why would they do that?  How does that work?

[Emjay]

Oh, we're meetin' at the courthouse at eight o'clock tonight
You just walk in the door and take the first turn to the right
Be careful when you get there, we hate to be bereft
But we're taking down the names of everybody turning left
Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
We're after Rosie Clooney, we've gotten Pinkie Lee
And the day we get Red Skelton won't that be a victory

Do you want Justice Warren for your Commissar?
Do you want Mrs. Krushchev in there with the DAR?
You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin
If mommie is a commie then you gotta turn her in

[endicom]

Will TBRers smear Cruz with 'JBS' as some did Trump with 'alt-right'?

Stay tuned for another thrilling episode of...

Why would they do that?

They wouldn't.

[Sanguine]

They wouldn't.

So, why did you bring it up?

[endicom]

So, why did you bring it up?

To bring back the thrilling days of yesteryear and the persistent yet ephemeral attempts to link Trump to the never-defined alt-right. Where did that go?

[Sanguine]

To bring back the thrilling days of yesteryear and the persistent yet ephemeral attempts to link Trump to the never-defined alt-right. Where did that go?

OK, thanks for answering.  I must be dull; makes no sense to me.