Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. - the only man qualified to be US President, or a sad old man with more money than sense?

that IL primary was my first exposure to LaRouche. Even as a kid i found that pair of nominees a little spooky.

rip big guy

*already miles deep into the concert pitch standardisation conspiracy*

larouche . . . otm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzPKEJHWoAA10aC.jpg:small

Every so often I search for the name of an acquaintance who disappeared into the LaRouche org around 2003-4 but references to her stop around 2007. Hopefully she just got married and doesn't use her maiden name at all and isn't in the Tower of London or something.

lol at prince philip outlasting the big guy

graphic design was his passion

i remember being accosted (ok, approached) by larouchites in front of post offices in the early 1990s. i think they hung out there?

i feel like if larouche were just 20–25 years younger he might have had a shot at president if he ran as a republican.

yeah, history has firmly established that larouche's only problem was that he ran for the wrong party

it's interesting he lived so long. goes to show you can just do whatever you want during your time here in the simulation and it will have no consequences. no one will hit you with a lightning bolt for being hateful or a lunatic.

this is news?

members of leftist groups that LaRouche classified as "left-protofascists"

i don't fully understand what his deal was

I remember dropping off a package at the post office in 2009 or so, and passing a table festooned with photoshopped images of Obama with Hitler's hair and mustache. I briefly confronted them ("this level of discourse is why American politics doesn't work"), assuming they were right wing nuts, but they were LaRouche nuts.

His deal was the Black Guelph Faction:

It was the same Venetian Party, the so-called Lombards of the Black Guelph faction, whose usury and wars plunged fourteenth-century Europe into the New Dark Age culminating in the Black Death pandemic.

From the beginning of Venice's power as the Western subcapital of Byzantium, it steered the efforts to destroy the Augustinian order in Western Europe, as it did from the time of Charlemagne. It was this Venetian Party, in the guise of the Black Guelph faction, which exploited the conditions following the A.D. 1250 death of Frederick II, to plunge Europe into the fourteenth century's New Dark Age.\\ That is the same Venetian Party, represented by such agencies as the pro-genocide Club of Rome, and that more powerful Cini Foundation based upon San Giorgio Maggiore, which connives at bringing about a planetary New Dark Age today.

Western Europe recovered from Venice's last New Dark Age on the basis of the Renaissance projected by Dante Alighieri and his successor Petrarch. The watershed of modern European civilization became the A.D. 1439 Council of Florence. Out of this Council came the modern form of sovereign nation-state, based upon literate forms of common languages, and dedicated to fostering the benefits of scientific and technological progress. Since 1439, the consistent dedication of the Venetian Party has been to eradicate the work of that Council of Florence. As Oxford University's evil John Ruskin merely typifies this program, the Venetian Party is dedicated to eradicating the institutions of scientific progress and the sovereign nation-state republic, to turn the world back to conditions like those established by the Black Guelph party at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

"evil John Ruskin" sounds like something trump would come up with if he was into art history

He was way before my time; I don't ever remember him coming up in conversation.

ruskin? i'd hope so

I hope John Ruskin comes up in conversation regularly tbh.

does his cult still exist? I can't recall the last time I saw one of his followers at a post office (i guess that really was a thing?) or a rally or whatever. did they peak in the 1980s?

I don't know, but LaRouche still has his cult.

must be fairly lonely these days. they've been outrun by the alex joneses etc. and the president, i guess.

i saw some larouchies on 5th ave a couple months ago, with some DEFEND TRUMP provocations. turns out the case against trump is secretly funded by the royals in yet another front in their perpetual coup plot.

i asked for some literature but they said it was for donors only :(