Saturday, October 26, 2024

Remembering Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche was a perennial third-party candidate who got as much attention from the MSM as Jill Stein does today. LaRouche was the original (well, for me, if not actually in history) conspiracy theorist as political candidate.  His claim I remember was that the Queen of England sat at the center of an international drug ring. Now that I know about the British opium trade (Afghanistan to China to control the natives. Empire has its advantages.), the claim seems slightly less outrageous, but not everything old is new again.

The point is, the press didn’t rebut LaRouche. At the time I figured it was: “Why bother?” LaRouche was on the fringe, he didn’t need to be taken seriously; serious people dismissed him, and his followers. True or not, Trump is the candidate of a major political party. Almost by definition, he has to be taken seriously. By the media, I mean.

But his claims are no less outrageous than anything LaRouche ever claimed. Is the difference that LaRouche was always on the fringe? Or that the press is incapable of challenging a politician dealing in racist fantasy and absolute bullshit? I don’t remember any reporter challenging George Wallace on his racism. WaPo turned on King when King turned on the war. (I think even Cronkite criticized the war before WaPo did.)

I realize now they did avoid LaRouche because they could. They wouldn’t have known what to do if LaRouche had been the GOP candidate.

OTOH, they knew exactly how to ignore the anti-war movement. As I say, they wouldn’t even allow Dr. King any credibility. Or McGovern in ‘73.
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1 comment:

  1. The Thought Criminal8:13 AM

    Lyndon Larouche in New Hampshire is actually more interesting because he was in thick as thieves with the nuclear industry and back when the Seabrook nuke was being pushed on the duped people of New Hampshire his zombies had a real role in politics there, back when John Sununu, the patriarch of that corrupt dynasty was in power. My aunt had the misfortune of him wanting to date her when she was a teenager, she was not interested in the least in him even then. She wouldn't talk about him but always gave me the impression of shuttering whenever his name came up.

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