Please keep me in mind this holiday weekend if you have some spare cash in your paypal account, and thanks! Without you this blog and my health would both suffer. Below is a timely post Ed Brayton just put on Facebook. It looks awfully familiar …
In the days before the Kennedy assassination, thousands of these fliers were distributed around Dallas in anticipation of his visit. Notice that far-right rhetoric is virtually unchanged from 50 years ago. Then it was the John Birch Society, today it’s the Tea Party, the Worldnetdaily and many others. But the arguments are exactly the same. We are forever on the verge of being taken over by the United Nations, always being sold out to our enemies, always infiltrated from within by communists (and now Muslims), always on the verge of tyranny and the end of America. Being a wingnut means never, ever having to reevaluate your positions due to failed predictions. And it isn’t just Democrats, they said the same thing about Eisenhower and Nixon.
Robert Welch, the first Grand Fuhrer of the John Birch Society, wrote:
I think (5) is about Kennedy sending the National Guard to Alabama (?) to enforce desegregation.
Kind of interesting that the two biggest complaints seem to be that he was too nice to communists and too nasty to Cuba