RIP, Lyndon LaRouche

Ran for the Presidency eight times, including once while in prison.

The money quote is from Jim Bakker (yes, the former TV evangelist).

Lyndon LaRouche, bizarre political theorist and perennial presidential candidate dies, at 96

 

He always was pretty much an underground candidate.

 

Well, it's a well-known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as "The Pentavirate," who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet triannually in a secret country mansion in Colorado known as "The Meadows."

 

I remember an election in Houston in the early eighties where the long time Democratic party county chair had a Slavic last name and the other candidate was named something like Johnson. Ignorant voters elected Johnson, and after he was elected it came out that he was a LaRouche follower. The party had to do a reorganization to take all the various powers away from the chairman as a result. I thought it was funny as hell at the time, but I'm certain that the party saw no humor in it whatsoever.

 

For people who are unfamiliar with LaRouche - he kind of operated in the nexus of Art Bell, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck with a side order of L. Ron Hubbard.

 

He was the mayor of crazytown. I interviewed him once in like 1996 when he was running for president. He embodied the term lunatic fringe.

 

Back in 1980, there was one guy in my college dorm whose family was all-in on LaRouche. He was a piece of work.

In retrospect, a case can be made for LaRouche being the InfoWars starter kit, with all the wild conspiracy theories.

 

He should have been a right wing for the Montreal Canadiens.

 

I first saw LaRouche before the '76 election, or maybe it was the '80. Dude's only advertising, beyond the seldom-seen yard sign, was that 30 minutes of network primetime time he bought every election cycle. He was my first introduction to conspiracy theories, which was pretty fascinating for a young kid. Of course he was batshit crazy.

 

Did anyone else ever have LaRouchies send you letters to the editor? I was at a small-town paper (4-5k circulation) about 20 years ago and there was one guy who wrote one or two pro-LaRouche letters a month, whether it was election season or not. The editor decided it was easier to just run them than deal with the angry phone calls when we refused to run them.

 

Always got a fanatical LaRouche supporter demanding airtime during my radio days. When told he could buy ads at the same rate as the other candidates, per FCC rules, he usually hung up before I could transfer him to sales.

 

His lunacy lives on in everyone who rails about the “deep state,” including the current President, who is effectively Lyndon LaRouche with a bolder attempt to compensate for male-pattern baldness.