>”I am not nor have I ever been a member of the John Birch Society.”<
“I’m a faithfull follower of Brother John Burch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain’t even got a garage you can call home and ask my wife”
I made that statement, trying to be funny.
But no, I’ve never been a member, but new many over the years who were.
They were usually very private people. And most of them had known me for some time before they told me.
One of them was a customer (I was in the wholesale hardware distribution business for ~40 years), one day I went into his office for a signature on some form and in the corner of the office was a Thompson (semi auto) complete with a drum feed. Smile. I asked him about it, he said during WWII he carried one and wanted it.
His wife was the Registrar at their local University (in a city in NM) and they were both very active John Burch members.
They were both very intelligent and private people.