This is from 1974. A speech by the founder of JBS, Robert Welch.
His predictions are amazing.
Video clip is 8 mins long.
Welch was virulently anti-communist and he opposed by nearly every lever of the conservative establishment of the day. The then paleocons supported him, albeit quietly.
As long as I can remember the John Birch Society has been both heralded and vilified.
I always thought they were speaking truth to power....
....but they were demonized, vilified, marginalized constantly
Just wait......we’ll see that happen on FR any moment now
In the early 1970s, when I was far too young to have any interest in politics, I had a teacher who HATED the John Birth Society. Hated, hated, hated. They had crazy ideas! CRAZY!!
I had no idea what she was talking about, but it always struck me that she seemed to have a serious problem if she got so worked up over some group of people.
Slow day in your neighborhood?
Anyone who’s got the commies number is alright with me.
Back in the early 70s, I considered joining, but got talked out of it by my Dad. He supported everything they stood for, but knew that associating with them would put a target on your back.
I was once the Republican County Chairman in Grant County, NM.
Voter registration was 5 Dems to 1 Republican. But in spite of that we managed to elect Republicans to Congress and the Senate.
The 2 groups I could rely on every election were the John Burch Society and the Mormon Church. What a contrast. But it was true, both groups would crawl over broken glass to vote Republican. (for different reasons)
I am not nor have I ever been a member of the John Birch Society. Nor do I have a leftist bone in my body. smile.
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While in USN mid 50s-60s took an ‘interest’ in JBS.
Believe at the time (we thought) it was a bunch of retired USN/USMC types that had organized it in late 50s.
Wasn’t really all that political then but the group did pique my curiosity and sort of let it drop later on.
Some ‘history’
https://time.com/3623761/john-birch/
My understanding is that they were anti-communists, but I often hear the name used interchangeably with the Klan.
Dad was NYPD. ..He was from the 40s to the late 60s. He had their pamphlets in his car. It was a cop thing st the time. I was to busy checking out the chicks and trying to score beer without an 18 year old ID. (Yeah 18 back then) to worry about the country back then. I wish I had been more observant at that time.
ML/NJ
I can see that in the intervening time, there’s a reasonable inversion of #9 peacenik-ism, to perpetual war as the foundation of our economy, the violation of which was Trump’s original sin.
Birchers are completely against a Convention Of States. So f’em.