Nader: The subservience of our congressional and White House puppets to Israeli military policy has been consistent [throughout multiple presidencies]. Until ’91, any dictator who was anti-Communist was our ally.
Buchanan: You used the term ‘congressional puppets.’ Did John Kerry show himself to be a congressional puppet when he voted to give the president a blank check to go to war?
Nader: They’re almost all puppets. There are two sets: Congressional puppets and White House puppets. When the chief puppeteer comes to Washington, the puppets prance.”
For the third time in less than two weeks, Nader invoked the troubling theme of Jewish control, and it would behoove us to recall that Pat Buchanan has consistently devoted himself to denigrating American Jews and Israel. Adumbrating Nader, Buchanan has spoken of Israel’s ‘amen corner in the United States’ and Congress being ‘Israeli-occupied territory.’ He once wrote the jaw-dropper that ex-camp guard John Demjanjuk, extradited from Cleveland to Jerusalem to stand trial as a Nazi war criminal, ‘may be the victim of an American Dreyfus case.’ He described Hitler as ‘an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War.’
More interesting, however, is the cooperation between Nader and the Reform Party. Far from being a Buchananite organization, as many people assume, the Reform Party is a political incubator through which a far Left political cult once called the International Workers Party (IWP) is attempting to deliver itself into the mainstream. It has come far closer to this goal than casual observers might believe.
The sect is led by Fred Newman, a psychologist and cult leader. Newman got his start in the 1960’s, after receiving a doctorate from Stanford University in the study of belief structures. He left academia in the late 60’s and founded a therapeutic paradigm called ‘Social Therapy’ that blends Maoist dogma with the ideas of Soviet Marxist psychologist Lev Vygotsky.
Newman had no license or training to practice psychotherapy, but soon he garnered a small group of devoted followers. Rooting out their most emotionally vulnerable clients, Newman and his Social Therapists ensnared them by exploiting what is sometimes loosely called ‘transference’ – the deep feelings of love and admiration that patients often develop for their caregivers.
Social Therapy leveraged a group dynamic, using peer pressure to suppress dissent. Sessions involved a leader thrumming the group with Newman-speak. Much of this was a jejune deployment of Marxist jargon, in which the patient had to overcome his mental entombment in ‘bourgeois’ thought and make a ‘revolution’ out of his recovery. The way to do this was to rise from the couches and join Newman’s cult, where acolytes would spend sixteen-hour days seven days a week working on his political projects. This is what became the International Workers Party.
In 1974 Newman fused his sect with Lyndon LaRouche’s National Caucus of Labor Committees. Though the dalliance was short-lived, their ideologies were similar (LaRouche began his career as a Trotskyist).
On the matter of Jews, they were in sync in a way predictable to watchers of leftist anti-Semitism. Both drew on Marxist principle, in which Jews and Judaism are conflated with capital. LaRouche wrote, “Hebrewism was an assimilationist doctrine developed… for a caste of merchant-userers [sic] within a pre-capitalist society.”
And Newman, a Jew himself, declared: “The Jew, the dirty Jew, once the ultimate victim of capitalism?s soul, fascism, would become a victimizer on behalf of capitalism.”
Newman broke with LaRouche and formally established the IWP. Not long afterward, he began to shake down his patients, adding assets control to his portfolio of cultic tricks. Negative publicity followed, and in 1979, having decided to pursue power through mainstream politics, Newman disbanded the IWP and replaced it with the New Alliance Party (NAP). His army of therapy drones, having grown over the years, was a natural source of labor. At this time, future party luminary Lenora Fulani became one of Newman’s patients. Seeing something special in her, he began to cultivate her for a leadership role.
