Actually, everything the John Birch Society said was going to happen has or is happening.
This is so but the reason that JBS is being mentioned is that the Left was highly successful in marginalizing JBS as kooks. They want to bind that meme to the Tea Party thus reliving one of their great propaganda successes.
I read the JBS material in my youth and it suggested that the rich elites were trying to make us communist.
I think the truth is they were trying to find a “middle ground” to maintain “peace” in the world by dealing with the communists.
They are trying to build a “New World Order” for the selfish interests of major interests (large business) with a mix of capitalist (Republican) and socialist (Democrat) rhetoric underlying it.
I hope issues like NSA spying and Common Core will help to create a broad based coalition of left and right to oppose the NWO.