Lyndon LaRouche's Very Tough Address
to the LaRouche PAC Beverly Hills Town Meeting

Oct. 22, 2005

Harley Schlanger: Okay, Lyn we're ready for you, so please begin.

Lyndon LaRouche: Well, let me be a little bit tough—and brief, because I'm in the middle of some things. I've just finished another piece, which is in the works now, if somebody doesn't, some Baby-Boomer doesn't ruin it all, somehow: On the subject of "Globalization and Imperialism."

But, we have a little problem, here, still. Let me just review a couple things for you: You know, I was, in a sense, pretty much knocked out of the box, in terms of my ability to direct the organization, because of what happened to me legally and otherwise, from the end of the 1980s until the end of the 1990s. So, about 1999, I was able to get back into action, in actually leading the organization. And, I started a program, outlining forecasting where the world was going. One of the first things I did, of course in that period, was to produce a feature video, which was relayed, on the subject of "Storm Over Asia." And those of who recall "Storm Over Asia," will recall that that is exactly what has happened in that area, and in the world, since the time I did that.

Then, toward the end of the year 2000, particularly in the immediate wake of the first reputed election of George W. Bush, I began a campaign, and launched it full-force, immediately after the first of the year.

Now, we had a lot of sabotage of that, in, say, the Washington area—one of the things we were doing was defending D.C. General Hospital, and our own Baby-Boomers in Leesburg, and elsewhere, and also from Jersey, were trying to sabotage what I was doing, on the basis that I should be out of the picture, and other people should be running things—sort of. Which was a close call—we almost won, at least we almost won a first step, of saving that hospital, but for our Boomers, from Jersey and from the National Center, unfortunately.

But then, since that time, we have been in a campaign to defend the nation and civilization against what's coming down.

Now, you should recall, that never, since my forecasts among us were widely circulated at the end of the 1960s, never — never —have I been mistaken, in the general forecasts I've issued, the general economic forecasts. Since that time, as I forecast, the world has been going down, down, down. This is most conspicuous, of course, in the Americas, where everything has become worse in the Americas, over that period of time. Everything has become worse in Europe, over that time. My operation, and my forecast, in terms of the fall of the Wall, particularly as to timing. I was one year or so off—so what? The Soviet system collapsed, as I said it would, if the conditions which I warned against were followed. They were followed, as I feared, and the Soviet system did collapse, as I forecast.

In the meantime, every time I've made a forecast, of a downturn in the economy, in any part of the world, I have always been right .

I also have always been right, in building up a youth movement, with the understanding that the problem in doing this, was that our own people, in our own association from the Baby-Boomer generation, would oppose it, would oppose what I was doing. And they did oppose it! I insisted that we go to a heavy emphasis on outreach. The phone teams and others would not do it . Whole sections of the organization refused to do it. I defined the emergence of the Baby-Boomer problem, in its new form, in the 1990s, as the greatest single internal threat to the continued existence of our association. I've been proven right, every step of the way.

We still have the problem with the Baby-Boomers. The Baby-Boomers complain about my complaining about the Baby-Boomers. But they keep giving me more and more reasons to complain. This is the nature of the situation.

We've now come to the point, that we're on the verge, after a persistent campaign, on the danger of the Bush-Cheney Administration, we're on the verge of having a turn there. Naturally, the enemy is really highly activated, and they're activated against me, as much as anything else. Because the enemy knows I'm right. But, the problem is the Baby-Boomers! The Baby-Boomers have the facts. They know I've been right in every forecast I ever made, if they look at what I actually said, and what happened. The problem with the Baby-Boomers, they don't want to admit , that it happened, even though they experienced it! Even though they know it!

One of the ways the Baby-Boomers in general act, is they will say, "Well, you say the economy is collapsing. We don't agree!"

Why don't you agree?

"Because—you don't understand. The economy has changed! Look, those old kinds of industries, those old farms and all those things, they are passé! So, when they collapse, that wasn't a failure—that was a good thing !"

Why was it a good thing?

"Because, we went from a producer society, to a services economy! Don't you understand? And now, don't you realize, we all depend upon services?" Sexual services, and other services, eh! And even the sexual services have changed to a new type.

So, what happened is, there's a denial. For example: A familiar statement, "The economy is sliding." "You're wrong! What is the market doing this week? How's the stock market doing?" And so, therefore, a process of hyperinflation is interpreted as prosperity, even though no one, around the country, knows it! Why? Look at what we've done on the mapping, on the animations, on the historical mapping. What has happened to the state of Michigan? What has happened to western Pennsylvania? What has happened to the state of Ohio, and Indiana? What has happened to the former grain states? What is happening in California? What is happening to our power systems? What is happening to our water systems? What is happening to our municipalities? How about our traffic jams? And so forth, and so on.

So, everything has been getting worse, but the Baby-Boomer is in a state of denial . And therefore, some of our Baby-Boomers are especially susceptible to being manipulated, even among the shills on their own phone contact list. Some of the shills keep feeding them junk, and telling them I'm wrong—and the Baby-Boomers on the phone team, believe them! Even though these guys are not our friends, even though they're on the list of the phone team contacts—they're shills! Who are feeding the enemy line, into the minds of some of our poor Baby-Boomers, who say, "Lyn was always wrong with his forecasts." I was always right!

So, that's the kind of problem we were dealing with; this is the problem we are dealing with today. We get all kinds of funny reactions about this, but the Baby-Boomers, as in California—it's unbelievable! I understand it, but it's unbelievable! Till you've seen this kind of performance, you don't realize what a disease being a Baby-Boomer represents. And their deep resentment of criticism of the Baby-Boomer generation. And I say, "Where's the outreach? Are you doing the outreach? Are you talking to the new people, the new contacts? Are you working to expand the contacts? Or, do you limit yourself to a dying list of people you've known over years?" It's the same thing in Europe; it's the same thing in the United States: It's an international disease. It's called the Baby-Boomer Disease.

And as I've explained, it was produced by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which is, you know, the Sexual Congress for Perversion, which educated the Baby-Boomers, in the 1950s, when they were still little kiddos, and brainwashed them. And brainwashed them all the way. This was a systematic job. It was done by ex-Marxists, by Marxists, by existentialists. And done, also, by the wealthy apparatus, the same apparatus which had earlier backed Hitler, until—for various reasons, technically, they dumped Hitler. But, once we were rid of Hitler, they came back with the same intention they had, which had led them to support Hitler.

And therefore, the cowards of my generation, who were terrified by the right-wing turn under Truman, gave in to this process. They allowed their children, who were born generally, say after 1945 to 1950, to be brainwashed: to be brainwashed by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. And what we see in the phone teams today, is, we see the effects of that brainwashing, in the denial of what has happened on the basis of my forecasts.

My forecasts have been the most successful forecasts in modern history! No one has been more accurate. Everything I said was going to happen, happened.

Of course, some people, our people spun it, and said, "Well, Lyn doesn't know how to put it. This is the way to put it." Well, that has happened. There's been some junk going out in the name of my forecasts, by Baby-Boomers who said, "Well, Lyn doesn't really understand the situation. This is the way you have to say it." And by their spinning it around a bit, in a typical Sophists' way, they did make a mess of some of the forecasts. But I never made a mistake on a forecast. What we published by me, was never mistaken. It's always happened that way.

Also: If I had not defended the Youth Movement against the Baby-Boomers, who repeatedly tried to shut it down!—the human race wouldn't have a chance, today. Because the United States and Europe wouldn't have anything in it, which might turn the situation in a favorable direction. We've done it. We've done it, because we resisted the Baby-Boomer Disease. Not because we hated the Baby-Boomers, but because we knew they were sick! That their ideas were sick; their culture was sick; their reflexes were sick. And I said, "Okay, I've got to take care of these Baby-Boomers, but I know I got a bunch of sick chickens on my hand." I'm not talking about the flu virus, I'm talking about a different kind of chicken.

So, that's the problem.

Now, we've come to the point, that, despite the Baby-Boomers—largely despite them. Because, I've run roughshod on some of these things, particularly in defending the Youth Movement against the Baby-Boomers' attempts to take it over, and ruin it . And I tell ya, every time the Baby-Boomers have gotten ahold of the Youth Movement, they have managed to ruin it! In those areas where they've done that. And then, they scream about me. They want to take over the Youth Movement; they want to reorganize it; they want to redirect it. And I have to defend the Youth Movement against the attempts of some of the Baby-Boomers, at even a rather high level in our organization, to say, "Well, we've got to take it over. We've got to do this; we gotta do this." They keep trying to get their paws in there, to change it.

And I won't let it happen: Because, it is the Youth Movement, which has provided the key catalyst, as we saw in the case of the Democratic Party, with the deployment, particularly into Boston in July of last year: Where my defense of the Youth Movement against the attempt to shut down my operation in Boston, going into the Convention, and close down the campaign at that point—if I had not successfully resisted that, the United States wouldn't have a chance, and the world wouldn't have a chance, today.

So, sometimes, it's a lonely fight. And leadership is always lonely. I can tell you that, because I'm a leader. And leadership is very lonely, particularly when you're right. And leadership means, leading, going against the stream, when you have to go against the stream.

And, we're now still at that point. We're now still in danger. We've accomplished a great deal. We, and particularly what I've been doing, we have weakened the Cheney phenomenon, to the point that it's now weakened. We haven't eliminated the problem. The boys are still back at it, trying to get in, and crawl in, one way or the other. And of course, the real enemy, which is not Cheney—the real enemy, which is the financial oligarchy, is still in there, and it's still dangerous, and Cheney is only their instrument; they're not his. Cheney may go. But the Felix Rohatyns and people like that still exist, and that's the real enemy .

So, we've got a big fight ahead of us. But, what we have to do, is, from time to time, review where we are, and how we got here. We've done just fine. The Youth Movement, with all its problems, has done just fine. And without this Youth Movement, without my supporting it, without my defending it against the Baby-Boomers, the human race, today, wouldn't have a chance.

But that's the way history is: Have fun! [applause]

Schlanger: Can you take a couple questions?

LaRouche: I'll take a couple—on that subject. The rest, you've got in this article, which is just out. You probably all have access to it, don't you?

Schlanger: Yeah, we will by today.

LaRouche: Good, good! That means things are improving. Baby-Boomers aren't censoring everything, huh? You know, I just made a complaint on your behalf, too, Harley. You know that, don't you?

Schlanger: Yes, I know.

LaRouche: And you can back up what I said, can't you?

Schlanger: I was there with you, in Boston, Lyn. I know what you're talking about.

LaRouche: And what about California?

Schlanger: Yes, I'm with you, in California, also!

LaRouche: What about Los Angeles?

Schlanger: I'm with you in Los Angeles!

LaRouche: And we have a problem there, don't we?

Schlanger: Yes, we have a problem.

LaRouche: Okay! And the problem is going to end, isn't it?

Schlanger: I hope so. [generalized laughter]

Well, let's put it this way: The Youth Movement would be much larger, if we ended this problem, and I think everyone realizes, that would be good for humanity.

LaRouche: That is good for humanity! I mean, this youth thing is a normal thing in history. It occurs all the time.

Every time, that humanity has gotten out of a mess, which it does, particularly European civilization, which it does periodically, it is always a handful of leaders, and a younger generation coming up, a young generation of young adults coming up, which has been decisive, in saving history, saving civilization , against the threat of a Baby-Boomer generation of their times. This is history ! It's because, about the age of 27 or so, in this society, still today, people become dead. They go dead! This is not necessary, for them to go dead, but it's built into these cultures, because of this factor which we see also in the Sophistry in ancient Greece, the spread of that from the Cult of Delphi. The same goes on today. And it's the things I'm constantly fighting against.

So, we're still in a point, where there has to be a rejuvenation of society by a youth movement. And it needs a few old men, a few old men and women, supported by youth, who get a reluctant, cranky, creaky older generation of the Baby-Boomers of their time, to turn around and come back and rejoin the human race. That's the problem that Harley faces in Los Angeles. Have fun! Okay, go ahead.

Schlanger: Does anybody have a pertinent question, and then we'll let Lyn go back to finishing what he's doing?

Question: What do we do, to reach out to the Baby-Boomer generation so that, then, they can see our point of view?

LaRouche: You don't do that. First of all, you have to be rough with them. And they'll scream and yell, but you have to be rough with them. Because, it's like dealing with an insane person, and the Baby-Boomer is, in a sense, a generation of the insane. Not quite like the Struldbrugs, but very near. They will stubbornly, angrily, furiously, cling to their mores. And you simply have to push, as I do. Ride roughshod. Don't take it, don't put up with it. Stick to your guns, and push. Because, they'll do everything they can to sabotage you, by using peer group pressures among themselves. They'll conspire—they actually will form little conspiracies, and they'll go behind your back.

For example, what you get with the Baby-Boomer: You tell them something they don't want to hear. When they become experienced, they look at you, "Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"—go back to what they were doing, as if you'd never spoken to them. In other words, they lie by silence : You tell them what to do, it's obvious, the evidence is there, they won't argue against it. They may scream awhile about it. Then they give up screaming ... and they simply go back to doing what they wanted to do in the first place .

You tell them to do outreach? "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh." You go back, did they do outreach? No. They didn't even try. "Oh, we tried!" They didn't. And they get on the phone, if they're on phone teams—they'll talk to a couple of contacts, who're probably shills for Cheney [Harley laughing]—yeah! On the phone team! It's also that the enemy works that way! YOu'll find on any list of phone team list of contacts, you'll have in phone team, they have certain hot contacts who are not our friends, but our enemies. They're working for Cheney or someone like that. And, what they do, this guy on the phone says, "Yeah, I like you guys, you know. I contribute to you guys, you know. I like you! But, you know ... your boss, you know, he's not always right, you know? According to my lights, he's always wrong on the economy! He's always wrong on this! He's always wrong on that!" Now, you have a couple of dummies in the phone team, who come back and say, "But our contacts remind us that Lyn has always been wrong in his forecasts." I was never wrong! Where'd they get that idea? They got that idea, because a shill in the list of their contacts, whom they talk to regularly, who soothes them, who strokes them, brainwashed them: That's why they say that.

Then you talk to them: "Why didn't you do outreach? Why didn't you raise any funds? Why didn't you—" "Aw-w-wh!" they say. "Urwh!" they say. They were brainwashed! And, you've got to check the phone team members at the door, and say, "Where are your brains, today? Who's got your brains controlled? Who on your contact list keeps telling you this bullshit?"

And that's the way you have to deal with it.

Schlanger: All right, Lyn. We have one more question for you. You said you were going to be tough, today—you're living up to it! [Lyn laughs]

Question: Hey, Lyn! This Nick Walsh. I was wondering about the Democratic Party out here—well, I guess in the country, nationwide. It seems like—we got a number of people elected, as you know, to the Central Committee in L.A., and up in Oakland; and other things that we're doing. It seems like a large section of the Democratic Party is just not acting any differently than they did during the Recall, during the Kerry election, the Kerry-Bush election. I know it's not that simple—I know there's dynamic changes in Washington from certain people. But, large parts of the Democratic Party, there's this huge vacuum, there's this huge weakness on the neo-con/Republican/Schwarzenegger types—Bush, Cheney. It doesn't seem like, particularly I'd say, out here, like the Democrats are seizing any initiative to really organize. For example, this Nov. 8 thing is one example—they're really not doing anything, except for us. I was wondering what—we're leading the fight like we have been. Is there something else you suggest on this thing? What's your view on—?

LaRouche: No. We're leading the fight. The problem is, the effect of this kind of phenomenon in California, in particular, on the Baby-Boomer generation in California. You know, you might say the problem there, is Californication. [explosive laughter] That, you have the cult of Hollywood, and the cult of California, which is, as you know, a sexual cult in a more pronounced form than you find in other parts of the country. You don't get that in Idaho [more explosive laughter]—hmm? But you have the Hollywood syndrome.

Also, you find around the country, where in many areas—we have areas, for example, take New York City in contrast to California: New York City is much more realistic. Our support in New York City is tremendous. It's not the whole city cheering for us, but the degree of support in California, as you know, Nick, I think, is greater. You have a problem in Jersey, which is largely in the organization, it's not so much in the population, though there is a problem in the population. You have, in the Midwest, you have a different situation. We have in, for example, in Texas, there's potentiality there.

But in California, you do have a special problem, which I think can be called Californication. It also goes together with the fact that, the strongest support we get (contrary to one slug in the briefing, today, which is very unfortunate), we do have support in the Congress. We do have support in the Congress. We do have support, not only in the Congress, but among the staff, people like that—not only support, but reception. The reason is, these guys are much closer to power, and the reality of power, than people in the financial community, or people in California.

California, remember, look what it did to itself, with these kinds of things that happened out there: The fact that Arnie Schwarzenegger is tolerated! And he's tolerated in the Democratic Party, which, as you know, is a big part of the problem. He's tolerated largely in the Hollywood types—tolerated among people you would call "the liberals," who are soft on Schwarzenegger, partly because of Maria Schriver and company, and her circles of influence. That's how Schwarznegger got the job! Was largely through his wife, and her liberal connections, the Hollywood connections.

You look at Hollywood films—now, they're no longer Hollywood films, really, but they're still the same. And, look at the quality of it! What's the mentality behind the Hollywood film? What's the mentality behind, look at the late-night talk shows, the ones with the interview shows: Look at them! Look at what's going out, look what's entertaining, look at what's the culture is of the country. It's a corrupt culture.

So, what we're doing, don't depend upon—don't sit back and say, "Well, the population isn't moving." What we've proven is, we can move part of the population, a minority of the population. And it's our deployment with the minority, that is moving, that makes the difference.

See, there's an ideological factor, here, you're referring to, Nick. What happened is, under the influence of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, you had a campaign against leadership, the idea of leadership, the so-called "democracy movement"; our society which operates on consensus. We don't follow leaders. Leadership is bad. We've got to avoid the "authoritarian personality"—which is the definition of a leader. What we have to do, is go to the most backward layer of our society, and listen to what they're saying, and thinking, and how they're vibrating. And we have to attune ourselves, to them. Because, otherwise, we're going to be called "authoritarian personalities." In other words, don't tell your neighbor that he's bankrupt, even while they're hauling everything out of the house! Because, if you do, you're an authoritarian personality.

So, it was the conditioning of the Baby-Boomer generation, which produced in the U.S. population the same kind of phenomenon of Sophistry, which led to the self-destruction of Classical Greek culture. So, the lesson of that, as the lesson of Socrates, and Plato, and so forth, the lesson is: Don't give into it. And don't allow the corruption shown by the Hollywood crowd, don't allow that corruption, which is very strong on the West Coast, don't allow it to influence the way you act, and the way you lead. And do not defer, in the sense of "Well, I know you have your opinion. We try not to be authoritarian. We don't push you—" Heh! Push 'em! Push 'em! You want to save them? Don't cater to their beliefs.

Don't cater to the Sophistry of the Athenians of the Peloponnesian War: Trying to "go along to get along" is the worst thing you can do for them. They'll destroy themselves! As the Greeks did, of Athens, in the Peloponnesian War. They'll destroy themselves: The Californicaters will destroy themselves, with the influence of Sophistry. The California Pacific Coast mythos, which is worse, than it is in the other parts of the country. You have the Southern phenomenon; you have the Californication phenomenon, the West Coast phenomenon; you have other phenomena, social phenomena. Don't give into them. Know the truth. Tell people the truth! Lead them for the truth! And don't accept their resistance to the truth. "Okay? You guys want to believe it? You want to be stupid? You'll pay the price—don't blame us, for what's going to happen to you, if you cling to those ideas."

Okay: I think that's the only way you can think about it. And then you figure out how to handle it, so you get under their skin a bit on this thing. Don't just beat 'em up, but get under their skin. Make them ashamed of themselves, see: "You come from California? You come from Hollywood? Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Do you know what goes on among these Hollywood crowds? Aren't you ashamed to be associated with them?" That's the way to approach it.

Have fun.

Schlanger: All right, Lyn, thank you very much.

LaRouche: Okay! I hope I was tough enough. [applause]