guno
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The difference between the '60s paranoia and today's is that now we have FoxNews, Drudge, talk-radio the internet, and billionaire funders so that this insanity can magnified and instantaneously transmitted to larger and larger audiences. Even if the percentage of the mentally-unbalanced is unchanged, the numbers who can hear it, and hear it repeated over-and-over-and-over, are substantially greater.
The Kochs' daddy funded the John Birch Society that considered fluoridation of drinking water to be a communist plot, and accused President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren of being communists. William F. Buckley, Jr., helped exclude such craziness from the conservative movement.
But, today, there is no William F. Buckley, Jr., and those who should be responsible to denounce the talk as crazy and marginalize it to the lunatic fringe remain silent.
Could it be that real conservatives are so few in number that they cannot afford to lose the money and votes of the crazy extremists.
Extremists in Dallas created volatile atmosphere before JFKs 1963 visit
Look familiar?
Extremists in Dallas created volatile atmosphere before JFK?s 1963 visit | Dallas Morning News
I remember going through Texas as a kid with family right before JFK's assassination and seeing bill boards put up by the rightwing john birch society with vile stuff