OK, I know that Lyndon LaRouche is a joke but he seems to be able to convince people that he and his political cult are linked with the Democratic party and especially John Kerry. I read this Factnet message board about LaRouche from time to time because I know someone who fell for his cult, and I saw the following message today:
http://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/4/358.html?1099441306...Seizing the hatred of Bush and the Iraq war creates an opportunity for recruitment and a different spin this time. Now, Lyn proclaims that we are working with unnamed big Democrats as consultants to the party and we are now big players. When the Dems lose th elections Lyn can say that because they did not listen to him, they lost. Dems won big this year so if you send a few yutes to a district and the voters elect a Dem over a Rep incumbent, than you take the claim of being the deciding factor. In the 2006 elections Lyn declares that his yutes won the election, regardless of how the independent vote and other sectors changed. Where the yuites received their biggest coverage and media exposure in CT, Lieberman won over Lamont. So no matter what happens, you can issue a reason why such and such happened and make the yutes feel like they did something rather than just be the butt of jokes on campus blogs around the country.
The move underway now is to have Lyn proclaim that John Kerry is tight with him and that the LarouchePAC is how to do it. This way, the org can raise money for LPAC, spend it on it self and claim to be the deciding factor in everything without having members loke at 1% vote totals for Lyn...
And in California the LaRouche Youth Movement and the California Democratic Party seem to work together for real. California Democrats must be really desperate to team up with the LaRouche people.
http://www.fdrlegacy.org/meetings.htmwww.larouchepac.com/pages/otherartic_files/2006/060410_fdr_legacy.htm
On March 14, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee voted to authorize the charter of the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Club. The initiators of the Club—Quincy O'Neal and Cody Jones—are elected members of the Central Committee, and have been involved in leading the day-to-day organizing in California against the fascist policies of George Shultz's leading operatives, Vice President Dick Cheney and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
O'Neal and Jones are also leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM), the nationwide youth organization of American statesman and former candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, Lyndon LaRouche.
Well, maybe LaRouche is just a nuisance and no danger to JK and other Democrats but through his claim that the LaRouche movement is a legitimate part of the Democratic Party more young people will be drawn into his cult movement under false pretense.