Comment by intalentive
3 years ago
That they were horrible people is irrelevant to the question: were they right about the "Communist goals"? That so many of the items in this list came to pass, either completely or in part, is prima facie evidence for 1) the existence of long term social planning in the West, or 2) the ability of the Birchers to correctly extrapolate from current trends to future events.
I mean, this isn't a list of "communist goals," this is a list of what is claimed, by American right-wingers and the American government during a time of vehement anti-communist sentiment - to be "communist goals," but it reads like a right-wing American screed. The first two items imply opposition to atomic war is a communist plot. It quotes without sources. It makes claims that it doesn't back up.
I see no particular reason to take this at face value.
The Birchers (and fellow travellers) were, according to Dr. Strangelove, also convinced that water fluoridation is a commie plot, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?