Invasion of Lyndon Larouche

[mousme]

So I was accosted yesterday in the metro by a proponent of Lyndon LaRouche, who proceeded to inform me that our nation was in peril, since the USA was in peril. He spouted a whole huge mouthful of nonsense about how Dick Cheney was trying to become the next Adolf Hitler (pronounced "Ay-dolf" of course), and that the US government has been trying to implement Nazi strategies ever since the Nixon government. Regardless of whether it was the Democrats or the Republicans in power, I might add.

Of course, I didn't really have to worry, the man hastened to reassure me. As long as I forked over my hard-earned cash and bought LaRouche's $15 book intitled "Children of Satan" and featuring a particularly juicy conspiracy theory about Cheney, then I would be contributing to Lyndon LaRouche's personal crusade to rid the world of right-wing corruption. LaRouche, he assured me, has "a two-prongued plan of attack" to save the world.

After that, I confess that he lost me in a sea of gibberish and pseudo-political science. There was a great deal of futuristic tech involved, taking over automobile companies like GM and Ford and forcing them to make high-speed monorails instead of cars (because that would strike a great blow to the enemies of democracy or something), and other random bits that made no sense.

I escaped with my sanity intact (barely), and would have thought no more about it if I hadn't received a flyer in the mail as well upon my return home. The timing really couldn't have been better. So it turns out that Lyndon LaRouche is not only running for President of the USA, but he's also forking out cash to get people elected in Canada's upcoming federal election.

Sheesh.

If I didn't know better, I'd say it was an American plot to rid themselves of LaRouche *and* undermine Canada at the same time. But that's just crazy.

Comments

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

Larouche has had folks working in Canada for years now. About a decade ago, there was a table outside a subway station here in Montreal for Larouche, trying to get signatures on a petition to nuke the USA.

Not surprisingly, folks waled away as soon as these loonies opened their mouths.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. LaRouche has been around for almost as long as I can remember (okay, maybe not quite that long). I was just surprised to see that he now has people running for office here.

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

If Larouche wants to squander money adding the lunatic fringe to our votes (many of us are fed up with the governing choices we have, but not fed up enough to support a nut), let him. Soon enough he'll be broke.

[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

I have been dealing with these same people for months. They set up shop at the door of the T (subway) at my college. I just wave them off now.

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

Well, we have to get rid of him somehow. He's been plaguing us for-freakin'-ever!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks a lot. We have enough of our own crackpots without adding yours to the mix. ;)

Lyndon LaRouche is living proof that the left has more than its own fair share of nutjobs, sadly.

[rdansky.livejournal.com]

LaRouche isn't lefty. LaRouche is somewhere out in the cornfields where Ayn Rand meets David Icke for a nude picnic while Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader strum ukeleles with the Rev. Gene Scott. "Left" does an injustice both to the left and to the n-dimensional contortions that must be invoked to describe Lyndon's political yoga pose of a stance.

[striped.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :D

Run Phnee...

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Before They realize that you are onto us!

You Canadians touched him last -- now you've got to keep him!