I met him when I was still in high school and a friend of mine dragged me to a Socialist Workers meeting. Everyone assumed he was a CIA plant because he was so batshit crazy:
Lyndon LaRouche, a quixotic leader of a cult-like organization who began his political career on the far left and ended it on the far right, railing against a host of groups, has died at 96. He ran for president eight times. https://t.co/WNpaW8l0E0
— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) February 13, 2019
Apparently Lyndon LaRouche has died at age 96. We have no word yet on whether it was the Rothschilds or the Royal House of Windsor
— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) February 12, 2019
Lyndon LaRouche was a cult leader. Make no mistake about that. I'll never forget the day some of his trained acolytes took over my @UVA classroom, screaming at, and threatening, 350 students in Politics 101 in spring semester 1991. They escaped just before police arrived.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) February 13, 2019
The tweet omits the amazing detail from the obituary: Bakker and LaRouche were cellmates in federal prison https://t.co/VnwYUTo9xU
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 13, 2019
LaRouche like Steve Bannon was a Trotskyite.
He hated the Brits.
One of his more interesting “theories” had to do with rock ‘n roll which he said was a revival of the ancient Dionysiac, Bacchic ritual, both having a relationship to the alpha rhythms of the brain.
LaRouce also claimed that the Grateful Dead were part of a “British intelligence operation,” spawned from the CIA’s LSD trials at Stanford University.
LaRouche often spoke about the Club of Rome, the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations and the Stanford Research Institute and their impact on the “counterculture.”
Most of what LaRouche spoke about had more then a grain of truth to it, but his information was often completely out of context so it was misinterpreted and easily debunked.