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So the John Birch Society is still around?

I never thought I'd see a time in which they'd look like a worthy organization representing the best interests of Americans. Here's a bit of their mission statement: "Our mission is to bring about less government, more responsibility, and – with God’s help – a better world by providing leadership, education, and organized volunteer action in accordance with moral and Constitutional principles."

Nothing in the least objectionable about that.

The leftist establishment succeeded in demonizing them, and I had thought they had disbanded since I have not heard them mentioned in political discussions since the '70s. Anyway, I found this section to be most informative: https://jbs.org/about/facts/

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.......and God said..........

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In light of what has been revealed about the CIA and the 60s cultural revolution, praising the Communists and trashing conservatives now looks like the stupid bleating of dupes, not brave defiance of the machine. I'd say the Birch Society has been vindicated.

The Vietnam War was a travesty that should never have happened and would not have, had there been anyone to defend us against the CIA and the Hawks in the Pentagon. But he was murdered and that absolute creep LBJ led us to perdition.

The culture war is absolutely the avenue used by neo-Marxists, as the result of their failure in the '60s to pull off a violent revolution, their failure to capture the American working class.

This is why I become annoyed when anyone tries to trivialize the situation by sneering at the culture war as insignificant, as anything less than the ideological capture of all our institutions.

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JennyStokes's avatar

USSR has NOT collapsed. Because of this inane Ukraine war it will rise again. This is not necessarily good but most of us in the world are fed up with Democracy (authoritarianism) being shoved down our throats.

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