Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch

[Guno צְבִי]

If you’re looking for the roots of today’s bizarre conspiracy-and-anger-driven politics, you need to look further back than the presidency of Donald Trump or even the rise of social media or talk radio — back to the accusatory, inflammatory, wild-eyed rhetoric of the John Birch Society in the 1960s and 1970s.


It was an outrageous and ludicrous assertion, but Welch was just getting started in weaving his tapestry of paranoia. He saw communist conspiracies lurking in colleges, high schools and the government.

Fluoride was being used to enervate Americans in advance of the coming communist occupation, he said.


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...iracy-theories

[zymurgy]

a healthy distrust of government is well warranted. what kind of retard has a soap box about conspiracy -driven anger while using an avatar pointing out how we were lied to to enter a war

14 year old's are more impressive than the op in logical awareness

[Guno צְבִי]

Welch also called the civil rights movement a communist conspiracy.

And so it continues. Welch-like logic and Welch-like rhetoric have taken over much of the right with false myths that tempt the weak mind. More than two-thirds of Republicans still don’t believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The QAnon conspiracy theory — which holds that Democrats in the so-called Deep State undermined Trump to cover up their child-sex racket — has at least one adherent in Congress.

[BidenPresident]

Fluoride was being used to enervate Americans in advance of the coming communist occupation, he said.


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...iracy-theories

You are referring to our precious bodily fluids. "Dr. Stranglove" was practically a documentary.

[Yakuda]

Welch also called the civil rights movement a communist conspiracy.

And so it continues. Welch-like logic and Welch-like rhetoric have taken over much of the right with false myths that tempt the weak mind. More than two-thirds of Republicans still don’t believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The QAnon conspiracy theory — which holds that Democrats in the so-called Deep State undermined Trump to cover up their child-sex racket — has at least one adherent in Congress.

I know right? There are still retards that believe in the Russian collusion delusion

[zymurgy]

Welch also called the civil rights movement a communist conspiracy.

And so it continues. Welch-like logic and Welch-like rhetoric have taken over much of the right with false myths that tempt the weak mind. More than two-thirds of Republicans still don’t believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The QAnon conspiracy theory — which holds that Democrats in the so-called Deep State undermined Trump to cover up their child-sex racket — has at least one adherent in Congress.

I find it hilarious how George Santos is not fit to serve because he is a liar

Joe Biden lied about every aspect of his history. His grades. His degree. His scholarships. His speeches.

does that hypocrisy trace back to John Birch Society as well tardo?

[Guno צְבִי]

a healthy distrust of government is well warranted. what kind of retard has a soap box about conspiracy -driven anger while using an avatar pointing out how we were lied to to enter a war

14 year old's are more impressive than the op in logical awareness

Hit a nerve with John Birch I see

I can see poorly educated rubes in flyover country can so easily be sucked into the Bircher/ MAGA crap

Millions of Americans won’t take vaccines to prevent COVID-19 because they don’t trust science.

Today, they are stuck on the roller coaster of Robert Welch’s political imagination, and can’t get off.

[zymurgy]

Hit a nerve with John Birch I see

I can see poorly educated rubes in flyover country can so easily be sucked into the Bircher/ MAGA crap

to hit a nerve, someone would actually need to care what you think

you are a clown - you entertain from time to time, but mostly I laugh at the mouth breathers

[BidenPresident]

If you’re looking for the roots of today’s bizarre conspiracy-and-anger-driven politics, you need to look further back than the presidency of Donald Trump or even the rise of social media or talk radio — back to the accusatory, inflammatory, wild-eyed rhetoric of the John Birch Society in the 1960s and 1970s.


It was an outrageous and ludicrous assertion, but Welch was just getting started in weaving his tapestry of paranoia. He saw communist conspiracies lurking in colleges, high schools and the government.

Fluoride was being used to enervate Americans in advance of the coming communist occupation, he said.


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...iracy-theories

General Ripper:

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

https://www3.nd.edu/~dlindley/handouts/DrS.htm

[Nordberg]

One of the originators of the John Birch Society was the Koch brother's father. They were always on the conspiracy side of life. The original society meetings were in the family basement.

[T. A. Gardner]

Edward Miller, the academic that wrote the piece quoted in the OP, is a true conspiratorial nutgoober. The guy specializes in researching hit pieces about the Right.

Edward H. Miller is a Full Teaching Professor and political historian who teaches the history of the U.S. in the world, specializing in the far right and conservatism in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/edward-h-miller/

His books on this include:

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Articles include:

When Texas fell to the wingnuts: The secret history of the Southern strategy, modern conservatism and the Lone Star State
Heading into Nut Country: Ted Dealey and JFK
Umbrella Man (related to the JFK assassination)

He's about as radical a Leftist as you can get. From his published works you can readily see that he takes a very politically slanted viewpoint then tries to ram that home without any sort of reasoning or attempt at open mindedness.

[Nordberg]

Edward Miller, the academic that wrote the piece quoted in the OP, is a true conspiratorial nutgoober. The guy specializes in researching hit pieces about the Right.

Edward H. Miller is a Full Teaching Professor and political historian who teaches the history of the U.S. in the world, specializing in the far right and conservatism in the U.S. in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/edward-h-miller/

His books on this include:

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Articles include:

When Texas fell to the wingnuts: The secret history of the Southern strategy, modern conservatism and the Lone Star State
Heading into Nut Country: Ted Dealey and JFK
Umbrella Man (related to the JFK assassination)

He's about as radical a Leftist as you can get. From his published works you can readily see that he takes a very politically slanted viewpoint then tries to ram that home without any sort of reasoning or attempt at open mindedness.

You failed to mention the Birchers.

[BidenPresident]

One of the originators of the John Birch Society was the Koch brother's father. They were always on the conspiracy side of life. The original society meetings were in the family basement.

Did not know that. Thanks.

[Hawkeye10]

Interesting....CJR has committed boatloads of WOKE crimes:

[Hawkeye10]