has anyone here ever actually read about Lyndon LaRouche?

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I am reading his Wiki page now, which is lengthy and well-sourced.  absolutely fascinating read.

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Okay, so this guy really creeps me out. It also seems quite possible in hindsight that I once took part in a four-hour debate with either a member of or sympathizer with the LaRouche movement.

you should add a 31st chapter about LaRouchism to your book.

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He is a cult leader and has been for going on 50 years if I am not mistaken

the devil's in the details, dude.

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since he is assuredly a clinical paranoiac (who has gone without treatment, as he would claim mainstream psychotherapy is nothing but some sort of hoax), the 'ideology' is internally inconsistent and is nonsense; in this way it is comparable to Stalinism, a term which I readily use and has some meaning because Stalin had concrete power for a long time, and thus there is a record of the things he did.  but Stalinism has absolutely no theoretical backing, Stalin made no attempt to forward original theory at any point in his life (I do not believe 'Foundations of Leninism', written in the most ecclesiastical and boring 'prose' you will even encounter), can fit this criteria... as evidenced by its fits and starts, its 180s according to his paranoiac whims.

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the origin is out of the 60s New Left but now most of what he says is more in line with far-right conspiracy theory; however I would claim that LaRouchism is not ideological, if it ever was.

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I discovered earlier that LaRouche got five percent of the national Democratic primary vote in 1996. Yikes.

as well as this impressive performance