re: #285 Charles

It’s really, really disturbing to see how much influence the John Birch Society has regained on the right, after being pretty much pushed out of the rational conservative movement.

Maybe this chart helps explain their new cred and why their same old message now has so many new fans. 10-year Gold price trend The Birchers have been telling all their friends and neighbors and anyone who would listen that this would happen and its happening just like they said it would and if you would have only listened to that guy’s advice 10 years ago you’d be far better off with the nest egg. So people think they can’t be all crazy and start to listen.

And another possibility is that the victims of the recession need someone to blame and the Birchers are demagogues who know which stories to drop to whip up crowds using the hate they know is already there. They play on ignorance.