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(67,030 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)... All have joined hands in extremism.
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(67,030 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,580 posts)Her father was Stillwell Conner, who along with Fred Koch (Bill & David's dad), helped found the John Birch Society. My local library has a copy on order (Just one?).
The reviews thus far read as a pretty horrorshow upbringing for Claire.
Triana
(22,666 posts)...it's well-written, easy to follow. And shocking how much of all we're seeing & hearing now is from Bircherism back then. It's the same shit on endless repeat. Anyone who thinks JBS is or was dead or defanged better think again. They're heeeeeere. They're everywhere - with a nasty extremist vengeance, and a whole lot of power, money -- and little opposition this time. Particularly from the media which no longer even challenges or critically examines them.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)They were vicious. Even to their own kids.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Excellent video.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)and Joe McCarthy was their boy. Once old Tail Gunner got exposed for being a power hungry drunk and the whole communist conspiracy as a huge fraud, the John Birchers just couldn't gain much traction.
So they started endowing think tanks as long as those places thought their way and buying up media so nobody could say it was wrong.
And that brings us to where we are today, the bovine dimwits who always want somebody to do their thinking for them mouthing the torrent of horseshit that flowed out of those places even as those policies push them down farther and farther.
I don't know what it's going to take to get people sick of the horseshit the way they were by the late 50s, when the John Birchers were endlessly lampooned. I just hope it is still possible.
Triana
(22,666 posts)They went 'underground' and hatched The Heritage Foundation, The Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity (all RW think tanks), ALEC, and gathered up more and more money, much of it from the Kochs and such snakes and snakepits, bought up state-level politicians, national media, etc.
Now, they OWN and control the US gov't all the way to the USSC (Clarence Thomas is one - at least) and most state houses and most of the media. And they are virtually unopposed by apparently unuspecting Democrats and the ignorant public, who evidently do not even realize from whence this cancer came (buried in history and they're none the wiser) and that it was soundly rejected by our nation just 40-50 short years ago. And the country has NOT become more conservative since then. Quite the contrary.