reading American Opinion in the student union bookstore

Interesting that you voted for McGovern in 1972.  I guess you did that knowing that he didn't have a snowball's chance.  That mention of selling Taiwan down the river took me right back to my college dropout days.  I spent a lot of time in the student union bookstore.  In the magazine section there was this odd little magazine, American Opinion, which was so far out that I read it pretty regularly.  I know now that it was the magazine of the Birch Society.  I thought at the time it was some bull goose loonies.  It was like a whole other world where up was down and white was black.

They had right wing views on everything of course, but more than that they had a conspiracy for everything that was going on.  And they were big on Taiwan, very big,  There were some US battleships patrolling the waters between brave little Taiwan and the menace of Red China.  An easily duped American, such as myself, would think that they were there to protect Taiwan from Mao and his godless horde, but the discriminating reader of the esoteric American Opinion would discover that they were actually there to prevent Taiwan from boarding their bold little ships and sailing across the strait, and conquering Red China.  And the reason that the US government was trying to prevent that was because almost everybody in the government was a commie. 

Eisenhower certainly was.  I'm not so sure about Tricky Dick, i think they liked him for his McCarthy activities, but they must have been, as you said, in for a shock when he sold out plucky Taiwan.  Did it ever occur to any of the Birchers that maybe the John Birch society was a commie front?

Didn't Cincinnatus end up opening his veins because he was on the wrong side of the political power structure?  I'm surprised that after the first time he turned down the crown the guy who took over didn't have him assassinated to remove the threat of his return.

I've been noticing this past week, after the Wisconsin primary that politics has come to a bit of a halt, and then I realized that it is because Trump has been buttoning his lip.  I think he thought before that all he had to do was expose his greatness and waltz away with the election, but now that he seems to have floundered in the land of a thousand cheeses, with the anti-Trumpists showing some backbone and Lyin' Ted stealing him blind delegate-wise, he has finally hired some real political experts and I assume they have told him to shut his fucking mouth for awhile.  We'll see how long that lasts.

Warming up at last.  In the Trib's weather map they always list the hottest and coldest cities in the mainland US and some city in the hat on top of the hat on the top of Michigan took the prize a few days ago.