Fools Exclude LaRouche -- in 1986, and 2023
How Adlai Stevenson III Gave Up His Political Life
-- For Gorbachov
March 8, 2023

March 8 (EIRNS)--The following leaflet is being issued in a run of 125,000 by LaRouche in 2004, the Presidential campaign committee of Lyndon LaRouche, to be circulated in the days leading up to the March 16 Illinois Democratic primary.

Your serious choices in this Illinois Democratic Presidential primary are John Kerry and Lyndon LaRouche. If you want a Democratic President to be capable of handling the economic and financial breakdown hitting the United States in 2004--as FDR did in 1933--you'd better vote for LaRouche.

Lyndon LaRouche is the candidate with the most itemized campaign contributions and the most active campaign organization of any Democrat for President, in Illinois and nationwide; yet the Democratic National Committee and the media exclude him.

The exclusion of LaRouche, if you tolerate it, will be a disaster for you and your family in this economic collapse. You'll be wise if you use the Illinois primary to break LaRouche's exclusion; you'll be a fool if you tolerate it--just like Adlai Stevenson III and other top Illinois Democrats were fools in 1986.

Adlai and the Party of Fools

Remember the Illinois LaRouche vote of March 18, 1986? Adlai Stevenson III does. So do former Attorney General Neil Hartigan; former Illinois State Democratic Party chairman Vince DeMuzzio, and the current Party leaders, Michael Madigan and Gary LaPaille. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. remembers it clearly; so does failed gubernatorial and mayoral candidate Rolland Burris.

And many another political leader remembers, in awe, the tremendous international onslaught against Lyndon LaRouche, the massive slanders, persecutions, and prosecutions which followed that vote.

The Illinois Democratic Presidential primary this year falls on March 16--that's 18 years since that other Illinois primary became "a shot heard 'round the world." LaRouche Democrats won two of the three top statewide nominations; the LaRouche slate got 1,200,000 votes statewide. And all Hell broke loose in the Democratic Party, and in the media here and internationally. Some 8,800 articles appeared worldwide. Why?

Because the most powerful bankers' faction in the Democratic Party--the circle of Felix Rohatyn and George Soros still today--and the Soviet leadership of Mikhail Gorbachov, were scared and furious about LaRouche's policy, his influence on the Reagan White House. They were publicly demanding LaRouche's head. And Adlai and those other leading Democratic fools who ran away from LaRouche in that crisis, destroyed the Illinois Democratic Party as a defender of economic justice, ever since.

LaRouche had combined his unequalled knowledge as a physical economist, his forecasting of the frontiers of technological progress, and his knowledge of military strategy, to give President Ronald Reagan the idea of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), announced by Reagan in 1983. Soviet leader Gorbachov had reacted by demanding LaRouche's prosecution, and refusing to negotiate with Reagan unless LaRouche was cut off. The Democratic Party chairman then, Charles Manatt, had chosen Chicago, Ill. for a press conference to demand all American political leaders cut contact with LaRouche. The 1984 Democratic Presidential candidate, Fritz Mondale, had huddled with Gorbachov's agents at a Minnesota conference to kill the SDI, and had denounced LaRouche's influence among Democrats. The Cost of Excluding LaRouche

Then came March 18, 1986. Illinois Democratic voters nominated LaRouche Democrats Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild for two of the top state offices.

In that primary election, Adlai Stevenson III was nominated for Governor of Illinois, the office held by his father and grandfather before him. He was spoken of as a Presidential candidate of the future. His pollsters had forecast the LaRouche vote; some local Democrats advised Adlai to run with the LaRouche Democrats. But he, and the state leaders, ran away from LaRouche instead.

Adlai caved in to the demands of Gorbachov, of the banker/organized-crime faction in the Democratic Party, of the media mass slanders of LaRouche. Rather than run with the LaRouche Democrats and win the governorship, Adlai played the fool and formed a pathetic "third party," the "Illinois Solidarity Party," to run against them.

Adlai paid for his foolishness; he has never been heard from politically, since. He split the Democratic vote. Republicans won all top state offices in November 1986, starting two decades of Republican dominance statewide. Illinois has lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and other productive jobs, and the Democratic Party has been powerless to do anything about it. That was the cost of tolerating the exclusion of Lyndon LaRouche.

Much more is at stake in 2004: collapse of the broken-down U.S. economy; an international financial blowout ready to hit. The "Democratic" bankers' faction of Rohatyn, Soros, et al. say, "We're going to handle this depression. No FDRs this time. Keep LaRouche out." You and your family's lives depend on their not succeeding.

Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Don't be a fool!

Vote for Lyndon LaRouche.

- 30 -