Where does Lyndon LaRouche get his cult followers?

[Ignacio Upton]

The guy is so far out there in terms of CT's and general moonbattery (who the fuck believes that the Queen of England controls the world's drug trade? Or that the Beetles and jazz are forms of mind control?) that he should be relegated to obscurity. However, his followers keep popping up on college campuses and show up to heckle candidates in various races (they disrupted a Presidential primary debate in 2004 and disrupted a Connecticut Senate debate last month.) I'm wondering how LaRouche is albe to maintain this cult-like status...and why he keeps trying to run for President as a Democrat even though the DNC has said election after election that he's not welcome in our party?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. the crazies too loony even for the religious Reich end up going there.

Think of it as a last chance bastion of certifiable sheep.

[kiahzero]

2. There are plenty of crazy people in the U.S. (n/t)

[OneBlueSky]

3. I remember Larouchies approaching me at Logan Airport in Boston . . .

the year Walter Mondale was the Democratic candidate for president (whenever that was) . . . he's been spouting his stuff for a long, long time . . .

funny thing is, he often makes some really good points when analyzing a problem . . . it's his proposed solutions that are generally batshit crazy . . .

[bigmonkey]

6. I think it's the good points he makes that set the trap.

When I remember reading some of his stuff, it seems like it was like this:

Hmm...Interesting!...Well put...Really? I never knew that...

Oh! He's crazy.

[jobycom]

4. I don't know. If Bush can have followers, why not LL?

Bush isn't any more credible or fact based. Saying the Queen controls the drug trade is no more bizarre than claiming Hussein was involved with 9-11, or that he had WMDs. IMHO.

[bryant69]

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[bluestateguy]

7. Lonely college students

Seriously, that is a big part of their base. They find lonely college students who are homesick and have had trouble fitting in and finding a group of friends. Maybe kids who are just a little socially dysfunctional, but also very impressionable and gullible. I have heard more than one story about a college student who drops out of school to work fulltime for LaRouche.

[David__77]

8. I know the answer to that. In a sense, he's convincing...

He's addressing real and important issues, with an intensity and sense of urgency lacking from the "mainstream." Really, he's filling a void left by the lull of the radical left. I adamantly reject the hero-worship of a group like LaRouche's, but I do understand the appeal to some looking for answers and, more importantly, a course of action. Simply dismissing the group as a "cult" is incorrect.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. The same place David Koresh got his

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