{"id":2466,"date":"2007-07-26T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/26\/how-to-dissolve-a-cult-take-3-or-thereabouts-and-how-to-regenerate-it\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:16:01","slug":"how-to-dissolve-a-cult-take-3-or-thereabouts-and-how-to-regenerate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/26\/how-to-dissolve-a-cult-take-3-or-thereabouts-and-how-to-regenerate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to dissolve a cult Take 3 or thereabouts, and how to regenerate it."},"content":{"rendered":"

(At the end of a string defending myself.) <\/font>I don’t think Larouche is listening. <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

— LaRouche is not listening, but believe me, some of the folks in the org are listening. Or reading. (Of course, ex-members read this material voraciously too–just as I am convinced that ex-members account for a very high percentage of the hits on the LPAC website that the org is so proud of.)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

— But members still locked in the org are also reading and reading and reading–welcome, one and all (pretty much–except for the members who read FactNet as part of the endless “investigative” work that the org does in “monitoring” its “enemies”). <\/em> <\/font><\/p>\n

(Shrug). HELLO LEESBURG! <\/font>
\nI posted two paragraphs from Dennis King’s latest, and most noteworthy, article<\/a>, on the power a cult leader holds in suggesting Suicide — over on the sidebar. Then there’s the final few sentences. <\/font><\/font>The ex-members are outraged, the boomers still inside the organization are upset, and the “yutes” (LaRouche Youth Movement members) are confused. LaRouche, it would appear, has finally opened Pandora’s Box. This may be the end game, folks.<\/font><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

Tap tap tap…
\nI am certainly not in a position to argue, or to agree for that matter. But I am reminded of the number of times an article in the mainstream media reported on Larouche and suggested that, for example when his Illinois followers won those two Democratic nominations in 1986, “but will the spotlight shined on him be the end of him?”<\/p>\n

Though, in a sense, these things did destroy him.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine you kill a zombie. He returns from the dead — at half strength. You kill him again.\u00c2\u00a0 And he returns again — once again, at half strength. Posit up any metric you want, and Larouche will fail to measure up to his old standard, except perhaps in terms of his Grandiose Vision of himself which is a constant unchangeable. (Once upon a time he had decent CIA contacts; now he just appears to google.) So comments like this<\/a> are what we have: Somewhat disappointed that LaRouche is still alive….so conventional of me.<\/em><\/p>\n

The mindset of the Fantasy Shadow Government, and if I may quibble with this found at the “larouchewatch” blog: If Hillary supports the resolution, and then gets elected, wanna bet LHL will be expecting an invite to sleep in Lincoln’s bedroom? <\/em>— It’s not so much that Larouche will be expecting anything, as he will claim such a thing. He’s a close adviser to Bill Clinton, you see.
\nCut his strengths in half enough times, and eventually it will just Larouche in a strait-jacket, directing world affairs in his own mind.
\nFrom an ex-Larouchie at FACTNet:<\/p>\n

Things have changed in Leesburg. From what I am picking up, members are challenging, complaining, muttering.
\nThe place leaks like a sieve, because members and non-members fraternize like crazy now–something that never happened in the past to this degree.
\nThe insulation and isolation that was preserved so effectively in the past is eroding beyond repair because so many people in Leesburg, including NEC members, now work. (Everyone who isn’t independently wealthy or running some special scam or VERY IMPORTANT to Lyn is either working or married to someone who’s working.) “Outside” contact–whether ex-member friends, non-member friends, outside jobs–is popping the bubble.<\/em>
\nThat means that there is potential for constant leaks, uncontrollable, and also for unrest in the ranks. <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Again, I can’t argue or agree, and if this spitting out at the wind were a serious enough threat to their own Special Oligarchy I’d receive denials of such. BUT… continuing on with this message, to the other side of the ledger, conflicting with the signs of breakage.<\/font><\/p>\n

This all pertains to Leesburg. In the regions, the NCs suffer from a 30-year addiction to being absolute dictators, which is reinforced by the communalism imposed on the LYM, and the general attitude associated with the LaRouche Jugend Bewegung.<\/em><\/font>
\nAnd back a bit:
\nThe problem however may lie in the fact that it appears that new recruits are subjected to a much more brutal and coercive and isolated existence than even we members from the earlier 70s, 80s and 90s were exposed to.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

These things are probably now more necessary than ever to maintain an increasingly credulous claim to “World Historic Figure” in this day and age, where one can theoretically be hermetically secluded in an obscure corner of the globe and with an Internet connection still have connections with the outside world. With that in mind, it appears that Larouche has ripped some pages off his websites. Note that the Dennis King website linked page on “Larouche served notice on his Jewish ‘boomers’ in 2005” is no longer there.
\nI wonder what else has been cut. I always thought one could use any number of examples of Larouche disparaging his boomers — or the equivalent of disparaging boomers in general while praising his Youth. Since this has been the very basis of the past half a dozen years of cult positioning, surely they can’t all be just tossed to the wind. Maybe that particular page wasn’t subtle enough.
\nSo here’s the dirty little secret. “Leaking like a sieve”, internal memos flowing out like an avalanche — and I return to the comment Bettag left on this blog about “those stolen documents”, a misnomer that she didn’t actually believe (but which allowed the acknowledgment of accuracy against an earlier insinuation of “slander”.). Maybe the Leesburg gang cares one iota about that situation, perhaps they don’t. But these things — these Daily Briefings — aren’t really needed to get an overview of the events of Larouche-land. It always manifests itself in the Larouche literature, which — after all — is produced primarily for the consumption of the cult members — and thus reflects what he means to knock into their head. (Secondarily any off-hand random supporter of whatever cause — Damned ye, Al Gore. Damned ye, Dick Cheney).
\nThe Dirty Laundry of Larouche’s organization, and its means of control and its circled wagon, is aired right there in the open, thinly submerged behind lines about Synarchist Plots and a supposed “BAE Scandal” or three — if something is beaten to the ground beyond any comprehension, there is a good bet that the external crisis is hiding an inflamed internal crisis. Just toss in a few old lines about Jeremy Duggan<\/a> in unrelated treatsies, and I think we can measure that Rorschach Test pretty easily.
\nBut Larouche can get great mileage from blasting away anyone who bothers to read these things and reports back on what they just read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(At the end of a string defending myself.) I don’t think Larouche is listening. — LaRouche is not listening, but believe me, some of the folks in the org are listening. Or reading. (Of course, ex-members read this material voraciously too–just as I am convinced that ex-members account for a very high percentage of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}