First Things doesn’t endorse candidates but we appreciate when candidates endorse our views. For example, as advocates of adventuresome space travel we naturally get excited about Congressional candidates who advance that agenda. But Kesha Rogers, the new Democratic nominee for Texas’ 22nd Congressional district, has a peculiar take on the issue:
After we impeach Obama, we are going to implement the LaRouche Plan, beginning with a global Glass-Steagall, and full-funding for a Moon-Mars mission, as the essential science driver behind a major commitment to build the modern infrastructure this nation ne
If the idea of a Democratic nominee calling for the impeachment of Obama throws you off, then you should know Ms. Rogers is a follower of Lyndon LaRouche. The result is a candidate whose policy proposals sound like hybrid of Ron Paul and Robert Heinlein: “I will take our troops out of the warzone and put them into space.” (That is my new favorite campaign slogan.)
But it’s Rogers less mainstream views that may hinder her electoral chances. For example, she recently told a reporter that, “I am leading a war against the British Empire. I’m not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.” That’s not likely to endear her with Democratic Party hacks. Or American Tories.
This is a Congressional seat once held by Ron Paul and Tom DeLay so it’s unlikely that a Democrat can win the general election anyway. But I suspect there are more than a few yellow-dog Democrats from my home state who will be more careful in the future about who they select in their party’s primary.
(Via: David Weigel)
March 5th, 2010 | 10:39 am
I encountered the Larouche supporters at a table on Campus just yesterday. Quite blatant in condemning the British Empire too. Banker conspiracy theorists, along the lines of the defunct social credit movement. Anti-Malthusians. No green party influences here, from what I can tell. They certainly are original thinkers.
March 6th, 2010 | 12:23 am
The concept of ‘empire’ is antithetical to the human potential, don’t you think, and especially to a republican as you and I are, no matter how you dress it up, “the white man’s burden”, manifest destiny, and so on. Other concepts such as oligarchy, corporatocracy (maybe not in the dictionary although John Perkins uses it a lot in his “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”) on and on are phrases that have no business in reality and as such time and again have demonstrated that they won’t work. So it must be time to try a constitution based on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even though there are some humans who will clutch at the remnants of ‘empire’.
Now about the banks: only the investment banks as described well by Matt Taibbi often in Rolling Stone magazine need be routed out, the depository banks not particularly into usury seem to be ok if properly regulated. With 6 billion people on planet Earth we really should have a few rules and regulations to keep from stepping on each others toes from time to time. We do want to multiply, nurturing the helpless ones, old and young, knowing that it is the orchid children that will grow up and provide the ideas to prevent entropy from being a significant impediment to human progress. There is a difference in banking in a monetarist system such as the ‘defunct social credit movement’ and a credit system delineated by Alexander Hamilton and implemented by FDR.
Perhaps you could call the co-editor of the Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand a greenie, if so since he recommends nuclear energy there may be some points of agreement with the LaRouche plan and the greenies. However the greenies have not the comprehensive approach that encompasses the physical economy of a nation that is possible today. Just think, Martin Luther and the printing press brought down the ‘Holy Roman Empire’; today’s citizens with the www can inform themselves and be able to have the power our constitution calls for in its very preamble, look, even in the Mayflower Compact, the general welfare is placed first.
How original they are I’m not sure as some of it is beyond me in my limited time to study. I did see their original thinking in their Kepler Project linked on the NASA website’s Kepler Project. Their original thinking is well grounded in study of great and beloved friends of the past who have contributed original thoughts, eg. Kepler, Gauss, Mozart, Bach, Shakespeare, Vernadsky and present leaders, Pope Benedict XVI, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Robert Beltran, the old geezer himself, Lyndon LaRouche, Jeff Steinberg, John Hoefle, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, etc. Keep an eye on Summer Shields who will be running against Nancy Pelosi and Rachel Brown who will challenge “Bail-Out” Barney Frank.
March 6th, 2010 | 1:32 am
One time, while sitting in American Authors class during sophomore year at BU, I was saddened when my professor allowed a troupe of Larouche thugs to enter the classroom and sing a song about how much they hated George W. Bush. When they finished singing and tried to distribute literature afterwards, she shooed them away, calling Larcouche an anti-semite.
I was steamed. She allowed them in, allowed them to sing their anti-Bush screed (which was not even funny), but THEN decided to kick them out.
March 7th, 2010 | 8:29 am
Wow Fern..that was enlightening to say the least!
I almost forgot what the article was about.
Anyway I think we need more authoritative women like Miss Rogers in power. She is single right?
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