Question: Hey Lyn! I'm from New Jersey. I got a question about a specific aspect of your solution for solving the problems of our country; I've been thinking about this lately. How would you go about, like--given the inevitable outcome of you becoming President in 2004--how would you go about motivating a population that's just been beaten down, physically and psychologically. And I want to address certain aspects of this question, not only motivating them to become producers again, but we talked about how, like the culture question, and how it does dumb us down, that is, to an animal level. But, how would you, as a form of policy, go about attacking that? Like, how would you use television, or what would you do about television?

LaRouche: Okay, let me just give you a good Rabelaisian answer to this, because I think the Rabelaisian answer is the most efficient.

It's hard to look a guy in the eye, when you're trying to kiss his ass at the same time. That's the problem. That's the problem that most people have in politics and similar kinds of things. They're trying to find a way to woo somebody from behind. Whereas if they would simply state, straight-up, what they intend to say, or should intend to say, looking the guy in the eye, so to speak, the idea would probably get across.

Now, for example. What does the typical American need?

Say, "Are you one of these dumb Americans who think that the economy is not collapsing? Are you one of the Americans who thought that free trade is this and that?"  Now, you don't quite say it that way, but you don't kiss his butt. What you do is say, "The problem that we're having, in society, which many Americans have, is they refuse to face reality, partly because they're afraid of being overheard saying the kinds of things that might get them into trouble. And therefore, people convince themselves, they should be overheard saying something, and when they say it too much, they even begin to believe it. The fact is, this system is collapsing. There's no solution except a new monetary system. Now, do you want to survive? Do you care what happens to you, and your family, and so forth, 10 or 20 years from now? Do you care? Do you care enough to change the way you think and act now?"

And that's the only way to deal with it. And the biggest problem we have...

Now, the advantage is, with younger people, as opposed to Baby Boomers... Baby Boomers tend to say, you're trying to influence a guy by kissing his butt. That's Baby Boomer behavior. Whereas you young guys, who may tend to do the same thing, sometimes, but you really, instinctively, you have a sense that your generation has been betrayed, by the preceding generation, and therefore, you're less hesitant to recognize the fact, that the policies which have been adopted over the past 40 years, in a process, the policies which have been tolerated by the previous generation, or the older generation, the 50 to 60 generation, the policies which are running the country now, have been awful, have been a betrayal. And that getting rid of those policies, and looking at the policies which previously existed, as a point of reference, for what we ought to be doing instead, is the way to look at it.

The person of the younger generation, say, the 18 to 25 year group today, is less inclined, to do ass-kissing. And that's the difference.

So, the point is, the younger person, who is saying plainly, like the little boy -- You know, the little boy in Christian Anderson's story of the Emperor's New Suit of Clothes? The whole crowd is standing there like a bunch of Baby Boomers, or blubbering Baby Boomers, admiring the Emperor walking down the street, absolutely naked, all pretending that they see him with his wonderful suit of clothes, that this couple of swindlers have foisted upon him, and this little boy, standing by the street, says, " But, Daddy, he has nothing on!"

And when you look at the parade of Baby Boomers, and their Emperor walking down the street, and you see George Bush babbling his way down the street, and every fool in the world admiring, saying "But he's the President!" And some little boy says, "Hey, he's got nothing on. He's brainless."

That's the truth. So, sometimes, the way of getting across, and emphasizing the simple truth, and looking inside the mind of the person you're addressing, not kissing their rear end, but looking inside their mind, to see what is the contradiction that's bothering them, lurking inside their mind, that will bring them to a recognition of the reality of the issue you're raising, you're posing. That'll work. Because reality is working for you.

Day by day, if he said something yesterday, tomorrow, it's gone.

Look, the dollar is now running at $1.15 per euro, as last reported, yesterday. $1.15! It was supposed to be at parity of one to one. The dollar is collapsing. The U.S. economy is collapsing. The U.S. financial system is tumbling. The President of the United States is sinking in the quicksand of his own mind. So, if a person says to you, "No, everything is fine," they know what they're doing. "This is all fine -- you're wrong. It's all going to be all right." You've got the advantage. He may tell you "no" today, but two weeks from now, he's going to look at you, "Hey, I was wrong, you were right." And that's the way to win.

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