In 1962, some of America’s most influential conservatives met to talk about a growing threat: the rise of paranoid conspiracy theories on the right.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) was thinking about running for president. A mutual friend set up a meeting for Goldwater with William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the conservative National Review, and Russell Kirk, author of the 1953 book “The Conservative Mind.”
In a hotel suite in Palm Beach, Fla., Buckley and Kirk found themselves giving Goldwater advice about how to respond to the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society’s surge in popularity. The society, founded in 1958, was fiercely anti-communist — and fond of supposedly crackpot theories. Its founder, candy manufacturer Robert Welch, had accused most of the U.S. government — including former Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower — of being under secret communist control.
Boy, were they wrong and the John Birch Society was 100% SPOT-ON!
Alas, it is too bad they didn’t listen, as our country has now been overrun by communists. Lt. Colonel Allen West says about 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is what the American Communist Party now call themselves, intended to deflect attention away from what they truly stand for.
The following is a partial list of Communist Party members currently serving in our nation’s congress at the time of this writing. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is now what the American Communist party call themselves; intended to deflect what they really stand for. Source: Their own website:
https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/
Congressional Progressive Caucus Members
Co-Chairs
Mark Pocan
Pramila Jayapal
Chairman Emeriti
Raúl Grijalva
Barbara Lee
First Vice Chair
Ro Khanna
Vice Chairs
David Cicilline
Katherine Clark
Debbie Dingell
Veronica Escobar
Ruben Gallego
Sheila Jackson Lee
Joe Neguse
Donald Norcross
Jan Schakowsky
Mark Takano
Whip
Ilhan Omar
Deputy Whips
Mark DeSaulnier
Lloyd Doggett
Deb Haaland
Adriano Espaillat
Andy Levin
Special Order Hour Conveners
Katie Porter
Rashida Tlaib
PAC Co-Chair
Jamie Raskin
Senate Member
Bernie Sanders
House Members
Alma Adams
Nanette Barragán
Karen Bass
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Don Beyer
Earl Blumenauer
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Suzanne Bonamici
Brendan Boyle
André Carson
Matt Cartwright
Judy Chu
Gil Cisneros
Yvette Clarke
Wm.Lacy Clay
Steve Cohen
Angie Craig
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Madeleine Dean
Peter DeFazio
Rosa DeLauro
Dwight Evans
Lois Frankel
Marcia Fudge
Tulsi Gabbard
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia
Sylvia Garcia
Jimmy Gomez
Katie Hill
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Steven Horsford
Jared Huffman
Hakeem Jeffries
Hank Johnson
Joe Kennedy III
Dan Kildee
Andy Kim
Brenda Lawrence
Barbara Lee
Mike Levin
John Lewis
Ted Lieu
David Loebsack
Zoe Lofgren
Alan Lowenthal
Carolyn Maloney
James McGovern
Gwen Moore
Joe Morelle
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Jerrold Nadler
Grace Napolitano
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Frank Pallone
Jimmy Panetta
Chellie Pingree
Ayanna Pressley
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Linda Sanchez
Mary Gay Scanlon
José Serrano
Brad Sherman
Adam Smith
Darren Soto
Bennie Thompson
Lori Trahan
Nydia Velázquez
Maxine Waters
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Peter Welch
Frederica Wilson
John Yarmuth
The following theme song for the John Birch Society rings even more true today.
The John Birch Society was called a “right wing extremist” group in the 1960’s and they’re still demonized for their beliefs. But the heck of it is, they were and ARE 100% CORRECT.
John Birch Society Song
Lyrics by Michael Brown
Oh, we’re meetin’ at the courthouse at eight o’clock tonight
You just walk in the door and take the first turn to the right
Be careful when you get there, we hate to be bereft
But we’re taking down the names of everybody turning left
Oh, we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society, help us fill the ranks
To get this movement started we need lots of tools and cranks
Now there’s no one that we’re certain the Kremlin doesn’t touch
We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much
We only hail the hero from whom we got our name
We’re not sure what he did but he’s our hero just the same
Oh, we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Socialism is the ism dismalest of all
Join the John Birch Society, there’s so much to do
Have you heard they’re serving vodka at the WCTU?
Well you’ve heard about the agents that we’ve already named
Well MPA has agents that are flauntedly unashamed
We’re after Rosie Clooney, we’ve gotten Pinkie Lee
And the day we get Red Skelton won’t that be a victory
Oh we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Norman Vincent Peale may think he’s kidding us along
But the John Birch Society knows he spilled the beans
He keeps on preaching brotherhood, but we know what he means
We’ll teach you how to spot ’em in the cities or the sticks
For even Jasper Junction is just full of Bolsheviks
The CIA’s subversive and so’s the FCC
There’s no one left but thee and we, and we’re not sure of thee
Oh, we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society holding off the Reds
We’ll use our hand and hearts and if we must we’ll use our heads
Do you want Justice Warren for your Commissar?
Do you want Mrs. Krushchev in there with the DAR?
You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin
If mommie is a commie then you gotta turn her in
Oh, we’re the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the Right
Join the John Birch Society as we’re marching on
And we’ll all be glad to see you when we’re meeting in the John
The John, the John Birch So- ci- I- teee.
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