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thenewgreen · 4787 days ago · link · · parent · post: The surprising psychology of those who disapprove of the Occupy Wall Street protests
Recently d_e_solomon posted an article from the New Yorker titled, "Confounding Fathers": http://hubski.com/pub?id=6705
The piece traces the fringe rights origins from Robert Welch and his John Birch Society to their current cheerleader, Glenn Beck. -It was a fantastic read, I suggest checking it out. After reading it, I'm convinced that the people Eisenhower is referring to as "stupid" are those in the John Birch Society and their ilk. Below is an excerpt: "In a tract Welch wrote titled “The Politician,” he attacked President Dwight D. Eisenhower as “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy”