BTW, I know you’re a big Ron Paul supporter, Yuriy, and I admire you for coming here to my blog to defend him where the NV CoH doesn’t apply. I’m not sure what your grandfather or Joseph Stalin have to do with Ron Paul, or why you keep making that association. Paul says socialism doesn’t work… but has he ever heard of Scandinavia where it works just fine?

There’s other criticism of his views out there on the Internet too. This was some interesting reading.

Aine, what you have is academic information. When it comes right down to it it simply doesn’t factor in the human condition.

Does age have anything to do with being aware of media, or even informed about the demographics he’s hoping to persuade to vote for him? The man is running for _president_, it’s his business to know all about that, as well as the media and the shows he’s going to make an appearance on. Well-informed audiences come from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as late-night TV in general.

Age doesn’t have anything to do with being (or pretending to be) uninformed. And he’s the same age as John McCain, btw.

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The link above for JBS at SourceWatch gives you some substantial clues about that organization. The John Birch Society has its roots in the precursor to McCarthyism and the rabid anti-Communist witchhunts that occurred in that era. Ron Paul is old enough to know all about that and what the John Birch Society advocates, then and now.

According to the link above at SourceWatch:

JBS advocates the abolition of income tax, and the repeal of civil rights legislation, which it sees as being Communist in inspiration. For this reason, its opponents characterise it as a white citizens’ society dedicated to preventing minorities from gaining political power.

That isn’t referring to the past but the present.

Here’s a chart showing the degree to which members of congress vote on matters favorable to the John Birch Society. If you scroll down to Ron Paul’s name, you’ll note that he has a 100% rating. If you click on his name there, it will take you to his page and show you that he’s had that rating for several years.

Here’s an excerpt from Publiceye:

In a sense, the Birch society pioneered the encoding of implicit cultural forms of ethnocentric White racism and Christian nationalist antisemitism rather than relying on the White supremacist biological determinism and open loathing of Jews that had typified the old right prior to WWII. Throughout its existence, however, the Society has promoted open homophobia and sexism.

And yes, there may be blacks who were or are members of JBS, but (from the same source above):

Despite its opposition to civil rights, throughout this period the JBS had a handful of black conservative members who supported this position on philosophical grounds involving states rights, economic libertarianism, and opposition to alleged communist subversion of the civil rights movement.

For interested parties, the FBI HQ main file on the JBS is 62-104401 and consists of about 12,000 pages. J. Edgar Hoover or his top subordinates referred to the JBS in FBI memos and reports as “extremist”, “irrational”, “irresponsible” and “lunatic fringe”.