Editing Reactionary Liberalism (section)

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The [[File:JohnBirchSociety.png]] '''John Birch Society''' ('''JBS''') is a US-American [[File:Plcn2.png]] [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]] and [[File:Paleolib.png]] [[Paleolibertarianism|paleolibertarian]] organization famous for promoting [[File:Anticommunism.png]] anti-communist [[File:Conspiracist.png]] conspiracy theories. It was founded in 1958 by a group of twelve led by one Robert W. Welch Jr., a retired candy store owner. 

The JBS considers [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[socialism]] and [[File:Unitary.png]] [[Centralism|big government]] to be "cancer" and calls its own ideology "Americanism," which Welch defined as "the philosophical antithesis of [[File:Commie.png]] Communism." It extols the [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|classical liberal]] ideals behind the [[File:AmeriConsti.png]] United States constitution that value [[File:Libertarian.png]] limited government and [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[republicanism]]. At the same time, it promotes [[File:Trad.png]] [[Traditionalism|socially conservative]] politics and denounces what it sees as moral decline.

While initially mostly concerned with [[File:Commie.png]] communism, the JBS has come to see communism as merely one tentacle of [[File:Esosoc.png]] [[Esoteric Socialism|a much larger and older conspiracy]]. According to the JBS, the "Insiders" currently behind communism were also the [[File:Illum.png]] [[Illuminatism|Illuminati]] that orchestrated the [[File:Girondi.png]] [[Girondism|French]] [[Jacobinism|Revolution]] [[File:AngryJack.png]] as part of their plan to create a [[File:World.png]] [[Globalism|one world government]]. Many of these beliefs are derived from the works of [[File:NestaHelenWebster.png]] [[British Fascism|Nesta Helen Webster]]. They sharply distinguish the secularist Illuminist values of the French Revolution with what they see as the untainted American Revolution.