I got into politics mainly in spite of myself. I remember campaigning with the LaRouche Labor Party in the locale of my parents Love Canal home when Jimmy Carter was running as a candidate and appeared at a rally nearby.
I was hawking Fusion magazines and New Solidarity Newspapers promoting the very antithesis of Carter's later idiotic "Energy Crisis" drivel. When I and my associates would mock Jimmy for seeing little green men in the back yard of his peanut warehouse and his Quixotic fighting off fearsome swimming rabbits, sometimes duped Democrats would counter that Jimmy was a nuclear engineer. The joke rejoinder went that if by that token Carter was a nuclear engineer for having captained a nuclear powered ship then I must be a gynecologist...
One of my associates attended a rally nearby that Carter held that day in downtown Niagara Falls. (The only other President who appeared in this relic of American industrial power was JFK. And I do remember my father hoisting me up on his shoulders as he sped by in an open air limo waving to the crowd on the side of the Niagara Falls boulevard.) She tried to corner Jimmy with a question that charged him with being a puppet of the Trilateral Commission. She named Zbigniew Brzezinski and James Shlesinger as his puppet masters. Jimmy grinning from ear to ear told her that he had never heard of the Trilateral Commission, Brzezinski or Shlesinger! And then Jimmy proceeded to sign the New Solidarity newspaper she was waving at him. And of course the rest is history.
It amazes me that today even the "mainstream media" covers the race for fusion energy and colonizing space all these many years later. Miribile Dictu, plus ça change.
