Roger L. Simon: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Studio City

I was in Studio City this evening doing an errand when Sheryl called me on the cell. She wanted some "very good tomatoes" for a crudo pasta she was making. Studio City is a relatively upscale part of LA's SF Valley (for those few left who don't know) and I was yards away from that very upscale super market Gelson's, so I did a u-ey (don't tell the LAPD) and pulled into their parking lot.

When I got out of the car and approached the market, I was immediately confronted by one of those sign-up petition card tables, displaying a wide banner: IMPEACH CHENEY.

Well, I thought, they're in good territory for that. Studio City probably votes about 94% Democratic.

But no one was stopping to sign. What was going on, I wondered? Bush's speech last night must have been successful beyond anyone's imagination.

Drawing closer to the super market entrance, I could see the table more clearly. There was the explanation... Just beneath the boldface Impeach Cheney was the following in smaller print: www.larouche.com.

Lyndon LaRouche - some things never die. His supporters smiled at me with the plastic grin of cultists. "You guys like Ron Paul?" I asked. One of them nodded. I nodded back and walked inside for my tomatoes.

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From my signon name you might figure I'm in the promotional products business. On Wednesday I was visiting a printer in Studio City who throws some business my way. Nice guy trying to work hard. As I was leaving he had a client in the store and he said to me, hey we might be able to do some items for those folks who gather at Laurel Canyon and Ventura (main intersection in Studio City.

I said, oh you mean those anti war folks. Yeah. I told him no way and he asks why in a befuddled way. My answer was if the nazi party wanted me to do tees I wouldn't do that either and left. Boy did I get looks from them both.

Further Left than the People's Republic of Soviet Monica? Or are we splitting ideological hairs here? :)

The far lefties like a lot of what the LaRouche folks talk about. I have a daughter who made a sharp left turn at UCLA. She asked me a few years ago about LaRouche and I had to tell her the story. These kids have no history.

is there a story on the Larouche types? I came up against almost EVERYONE (even the pre-David Ickes "Mo-Notes"... I lived in Toronto in the 70s).. and really, have only seen them now and then at airports.

Ron Paul has absolutely nothing to do with Lyndon LaRouche, despite Roger's silly attempt to imply such. Why anyone would even bother talking to the wacko LaRouche folk is a good question.

September 14, 2007: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Studio City

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