What's old is new again - interesting vintage far (alt) right propaganda from 1960s

[hexola]

I've been in the antique and collectible business for my whole life - grew up in the business. Recently I was sorting through a vinyl LP lot and found an interesting cache of records.

These LP are racist, right wing propaganda from the early 1960s - most from a fellow named Wally Butterworth - who is connected with - you guessed it - The Ku Klux Klan.

Looking at these spoken word titles, here it is - vintage alt.right nationalism, using the "social media" of the day to push their message.

Most alarming is how sadly familiar these themes are - "We're Taking Back Our Country" sounds so 2018, So Trump.

Notice the mailing addresses on the record lablels - Decatur GA, Wetumka, AL, Tucker GA. The Stars and Bars have been interbreeding with the Swastika for longer than we thought.

I always new this stuff existed. I used to hear these serious sounding voices on HAM/Shortwave radio when I was kid - It was mostly amusing, but I really didn't understand politics or govt then, and lots of it was JFK oriented.

I also have a few boxes of books that belonged to the same person.

This person also seemed to be studying the left/opposition - he had a few odd titles in his library. Most interesting is "The Plotters" by John Roy Carlson. The owner of this book took the trouble to type a small label that says "A Communist" and taped it below the authors name on the spine of the book!

But - the rest of the books are all Nazi "history" stuff - and mostly titles that might suggest a fondness for the cause.

But my main impression to share here is - Wow - this bullshit goes back quite a bit further than Rush Limbaugh's radio show.

And for sure - it sounds quite like the crap you can read on FreeRepublic everyday.

I haven't listened to any of this stuff - and I'm not about to set up my turntable - for this. But I am intrigued to hear how much the playbook has changed - or not.

[ck4829]

1. The embryonic forms of Breitbart or WorldNutDaily

[MineralMan]

2. Southern California, where I grew up in that period, was a hotbed

of right wing craziness. The John Birch Society and various other organizations were very active in attempting to prevent liberal ideas from taking hold. They lost that battle.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Knott's Berry Farm

[hexola]

3. Bump for PM crowd

Thank you!

[JHB]

4. Hofstader's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1964)...

...should be required reading.

[malaise]

5. Interesting that the KKK became embedded with the Fundie movement

at taxpayers' expense.