Social base of conspiracists varies by organization. For instance in the John Birch Society, which is growing, the members have above average income and education.
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:58 PM Subject: ZIG/ZOG
> Chip Berlet wrote:
>
> >In 1962 the antisemitic four-page semi-monthly newspaper Common
> >Sense published by Conde McGinley hit a circulation high of 90,000
> >with its message of the "Zionist Invisible Government" plotting to
> >establish a "World Government" under a "Red Dictatorship" led by
> >"Asiatic Marxist Jews," a racialized version of the Khazar myth. The
> >warnings of a "Zionist Occupational Government" popularized in the
> >1970s and 1980s by the Posse Comitatus, Christian Identity, Aryan
> >Nations, and other Christian Patriot groups are the heirs to this
> >premise.
>
> Has the social base for this sort of thing changed? My impression is
> that the Posse Comitatus and the rest are a pretty downscale group;
> correct me if I'm wrong. Was that true of the 1950s/1960s version?
>
> Doug
>