They have this in common with the Nazis, that if the world really was like their fantasies it would be considerably better. (Jazz? Uppity women? Jews? Socialists? Degenerate art? Cracking.)

An interesting point of difference from communism, come to think of it.

And if you have a sevewe speech impediment.

From The Little Lords of the Unzipped Flies:

Sometimes, the sewer lines of history back up. As I recall from a wartime outbreak of amoebic dysentery in Myitkinya, Myanmar,[1] the stink produced on warm sub-tropical days, by the relevant clinical evidence taken from hundreds of U.S. military service personnel, was as astonishing as it was repulsive. The same might be said of the phenomena I now present here, on the subject of insight into a crucial aspect of the clinical history of “Boomerism.”

I suspect it is all much closer to him burning through yet another generation of followers per what is described in this article from Nicolas F. Benton an ex-LaRouchean.

The generational cohorts are at war with each other. (Long story.) Almost all of the LaRouche following in Europe walked out in late 2006, and a bunch of his Latin American followers did the same a few years back. So it’s kind of chaotic now. All told, there are a few hundred hardcore members out raising funds and distributing literature, and probably an equal number of those who lack what it takes to save humanity full-time but still think LaRouche is the man with the plan.

Why do people join? All kinds of reasons, but suffice it for now to say that LaRouche has long experience finding idealistic and confused young people and exploiting them. It started at Columbia University 40 years ago, so he’s had lots of practice.

1. Just how many followers does LaRouche have, sometimes I get the indication that they must be quite few, but other times their presence seems to outweigh such theoretically small numbers. They must be incredibly dedicated because they are all over youtube.

2. An older one, but why do seemingly intelligent, relatively skeptical young people fall for such an obvious charlatan? Anyone can become full of shit or swayed by a seductive enough siren song, but of the propaganda videos I’ve seen on youtube from his dedicated college students, these kids all seem pretty bright and it’s a mystery why they would fall for such obvious bullshit.

It’s clear from internal documents now making the rounds that lots of his old-timers are in revolt. Others are just trying to hold on until the founder dies and they can launch a power struggle over who gets to keep the mummy. (I am just guessing about that part. It is quite possible there are laws against mummification in the Commonwealth of Virginia.)

In any case, the group’s publishing company is now extinct—having been pretty much looted to bankruptcy to meet the lifestyle demands of Fearless Leader. Keep an eye out for the Monthly feature. It’s quite the saga.

“We are now at a particularly crucial moment,” LaRouche said on Sept. 27, “because the British are going for end-game, the final destruction of the United States. They are banking on the help of traitors within, led by people like Dick Cheney.” Key to the British plan, LaRouche said, is to push the United States to stay on a confrontational, permanent-war track in Southwest Asia and globally.”

Equally crucial to the British gameplan, is to let the United States destroy itself by failing to take sovereign action to prevent the devastating financial-economic breakdown in process under the name of the “mortgage crisis.”

That was September 1976.