He was a socialist at least.

And if he was, crazy he would have liked the “sharing is caring” ideology over the “fuck you, got mine” ideology.

Just regarding the post title, John Birch died 14 years before the JBS was founded and had nothing to do with them. They considered him a martyr because he was killed by a Chinese Communist during an assignment so they used him as a symbol of anti-Communism. James Doolittle, a wartime pilot and possibly Birch’s friend (maybe they just worked together, not sure exactly and I don’t feel like looking into it further), said in his autobiography:

“[Birch] had no way of knowing that the John Birch Society, a highly vocal postwar anti-communist organization, would be named after him because its founders believed him to be the ‘first casualty of World War III.’ I feel sure he would not have approved.”

As usual it’s these far right assholes hiding behind something/someone more respectable to launder their bullshit.

To be fair, the JBS also thought Eisenhower was a communist, so I’m not sure we need to be listening to them

Clearly they didn’t notice Elmo’s colour.

What I’m hearing is that Communism values kindness

So he was even more based than media lets on. Thanks, JBS

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