The Left Has Left the Building
The new, “Woke” Left has entirely taken over my old party, the Democrats. There literally isn’t a single Democratic Party elected official who is redeemable in the least. They are all irrational devotees of Identity Politics, where emotion rules instead of reason. They are authoritarians in pink gloves, tattoos, and multi-colored hair.
In 1975, at about the time of my political awakening, there were a lot of younger Democrats in Congress, elected in a post-Watergate tidal wave. The Freedom of Information Act was passed, and the hearings chaired by Senator Frank Church first shone light on the CIA’s nefarious activities, including their often comical attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. I wore the label “liberal” proudly, knowing that it indicated tolerance, compassion, and a desire to reform wrongs. Most of these “reformers” would show their true colors within a few years, during the time the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) conducted their bogus “investigation.” They didn’t legalize, or even decriminalize marijuana, as most of us on the Left hoped they would. They had no more interest in the plethora of UFO sightings than conservative Republicans did. And, of course, they largely upheld the discredited Warren Report.
There were also conspiracy theorists on the Left in those days. I don’t mean ridiculous “Russiagate” types, probably financed by USAID. I mean the likes of Mae Brussell, whose renegade radio show blazed the path for podcasters, long before the internet. Mae tended to see Nazi connections everywhere, but she was the first to question who and what Charles Manson really was, and also was very vocal about a conspiracy taking the life of former Beatle John Lennon. Then there was Dr. Peter Beter, who was deliciously ridiculous. Dr. Beter claimed that new President Jimmy Carter had been replaced by a clone, or a duplicate. His evidence for this was that Carter suddenly changed the side he parted his hair on shortly after the election. He was a real trailblazer here, as in the years to come, other conspiracy theorists would claim pretty much every president had been replaced by a clone/duplicate. I think the Biden theory goes that the clone/duplicate was several inches taller or something.
All of the high profile, original JFK assassination researchers came from the far Left. Where I was, with my long hair, untucked shirt, smoking cigarettes wherever I wanted without any respect for authority. Mark Lane. Sylvia Meagher, apparently a practicing witch, who nevertheless produced one of the best books on th
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