You cannot get more diametrically opposite to fascist values and principles than Ron Paul. Nevertheless, he is the person whom the JBS sets up as the most representative of the type of politician they favor.
Ron Paul intentionally appeals to anti-Semites and neo-Nazis. No wonder the Birch Society likes him.
Let's get something straight: "fascist" (with a small "f") is a Leftist smear word. The only reason I used it at all was that Nesta Webster was a capital "F" Fascist who belonged to a capital "F" Fascist organization. "Capital F Fascism" refers only to Mussolini's movement and government in Italy and to nothing else. Italian Fascism originally had no racial element to its doctrine whatsoever (there were many Jewish Fascists in Italy and even in pre-state "Palestine"). The JBS is not a front group for Italian Fascism (which doesn't even exist anymore, having been completely co-opted by Nazism). It is a front group for the anti-Semitic movement.
It is true that I have a visceral dislike of the Birch Society, having once been duped into becoming a member. This visceral dislike is completely understandable.
Of course out-and-out Nazi groups like Stormfront condemn the JBS as "Jewish." Otherwise JBS wouldn't be "respectable" enough to do its job.
Why don't you and I stop arguing about the Birch Society?
You’re right — it is pointless to continue. Anyone who claims that Ron Paul “intentionally appeals to anti-semites and neo-nazis” is so intellectually dishonest that there is no possible basis for any conversation.
Incidentally, I very much doubt that you ever were a JBS member.