So somebody explain to me about the John Birch Society. I hit their website, they look like anti-communists from the McCarthy era.....I have no problem with that.
I agree. What’s wrong with the John Birch Society?
Their "known Communists" included Eisenhower. We know now that there were plenty of real Communists in Washington from the thirties through the fifties: Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, etc. But by calling essentially every single public official in America a Soviet agent, they provided a de facto cover to the real Soviet agents. They are a joke and an embarrassment.
The John Birch Society thought Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist spy.
They call anyone they disagree with a Communist. If they disagreed with you, you’re a Communist. It’s insane.
“So somebody explain to me about the John Birch Society. I hit their website, they look like anti-communists from the McCarthy era.....I have no problem with that.”
I put them in the same catagory that I put the LYNDON LAROUCHE’s- some correct points but it is a group that you don’t want to be associated with. It would be like letting the KKK proclaim themselves as “conservatives”. I do think they made a mistake in letting them be a sponsor in this. In the end, like it or not, the MSM will make a big thing of it.
“So somebody explain to me about the John Birch Society. I hit their website, they look like anti-communists from the McCarthy era.....I have no problem with that.”
I think it’s all about anti-semitism or at least the look of it. I’m guessing it’s about endorsements, the anti-Nixon bent of Welch, conspiracism, etc...
The Birchers tended to go a little overboard. Everybody was a communist. They declared Ike to be a dedicated member of the communist conspiracy. That well qualifies as nutty.