I have attended a meeting of the Larouche Youth Movement.
They have some good ideas...
Let me first say that the use of certain catchall words/phrases like "Insane" and "Children of Satan", "Spoon-benders", and other insults against the Bush/Cheney/republican whitehouse are appauling.
They expect you to simply accept these matters of opinion as truth, and I did not like that.
The youth movement was focused on learning more than just politics. While I was there one named Ed explained to me the pricipal of the golden ratio and other mathematic equations.
That I liked because it was unexpected.
I also liked the fact that they were studying and performing classical music as a means to understanding the harmonics of the solar system.
They had many different interests beside politics, but they were pushy and they did not want me to leave, and I do not like people telling me what I need to do or people who cling to hard to me.
They understood the importance of the individual to the movement, and they had an impressive list of accomplishments, but I felt like they were trying to sell this movement to me as if I had no idea of what it meant to live in the revolutionary mindset, and I did not appreciate the presupposition that I was ignorent and must be implanted with knowledge.
They were intelligent and willing to teach, but they atomatically assumed that I had nothing to give in return. which made our conversations some what one sided.
I was there with my husband, who was a bit more skeptical at first than I was (with good reason, as we would soon find out), and they sensed my openmindedness and attempted to turn us against each other so that I would leave him and join them. Mistake.
They invited us to spend a weekend with them at a school in western massachusetts.
They understood that we have no car and no money and so they provided transportation.
They liked the fact that we are so poor because they were all quite well off and they were constantly speaking about the plight of the impoverish and to actually have two "of them" joining their group was of the utmost importance because none of them actually had experience in what it means to have to fight for survival.
I was going to go to the weekend school at first, but then I started to feel like it was a bad idea.
I told them I had my doubts, but they did not understand.
They were offended when I told them I did not want to go because I did not want to be there alone.
They said I would not be alone, but ammoung my own peers.
I did not like the fact that they were not understanding of my feelings, and yet they expected me to be a part of their group.
They were incredibly pushy and called me several times in order to convince me of the many reasons why I should attend.
One man I spoke to rambled off about a hundred different accomplishments and virtues of their individual chapte alone, becoming distressed after I politely refused.
That is whe I ended my communications with that political group.
They had the right ideas, but the ways in which they applied those ides only drove me away from ever wanting anything to do with them ever again.
Their propaganda was aimed at black americans, poor americans, and was formulated in a rather ignorent way.
They expected me to be ignorent, to follow their creed born of ignorence, they wanted me to be ignorent because they thought ignorece was useful.
Ignorence is useful, but when it came to the topics they were discussing, I am far from ignorent and I did not being treated like I was being used.
They wanted to exploit the fact that I am poor, and they wanted me to go along with it.
I said no and they got upset.
Do not trust Larouche.
He is "for the people", the black people, the ignorent people, the poor people.
He is for keeping them ignorent and poor and stereotipically black because they are useful to him in that condition.
I hae some of the pamphlets and books they gave me.
If anyone is interested, I will post quotes from them.
The only reason I do not do it now is because they are in another room and I am somewhat lazy.
I can answer many questions about him and his youth movement.
"Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world, may at any time be superseded and decease."---Emerson, Nature
