Ya know, Kris and all, I live in the real world and I understand the circumstances and decisions that would bring a person to politics other than ours. A lot of people really believe in the Democratic line, and I understand that. Many people support Ralph Nader, and I can understand where they are coming from. Doesn't mean I agree with them, but I understand that they sincerely hold these beliefs and that there was some process by which they came to them.
But I can't figure LaRouche's crowd out. Unless they are like the really insane conspiratroids, the Michael Rivero -- Jeff Rense -- Mike Ruppert round-the-bend guys, who just seem to be lost souls looking for some structure to be part of. I mean, Lyndon LaRouche's policy statements are all but incoherent; his history of mendacity and criminality is a matter of public record; his electoral ambitions have gone, er, unrewarded by a skeptical electorate.
Why, then, does this knucklehead attract followers? Is it that there are so many followers and so few leaders out of nearly 300 millions of us that anyone, even a criminal or a lunatic, is assured a certain baseline level of support if he throws his hat in the ring?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I do not have a high opinion of a lot of people in this country. Anyone that buys into this stuff is intellectually lazy.
Just listen to Washington Journal on C-SPAM. Self-evident. 'Pod.