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New Direction for Conspiracy Theorist

I have always told people that the conspiracy theorist types will never go away. Under George Bush the conspiracies were coming more from the left, GWB was the New World Order devil for them. Claims that he rigged the elections and that he and Dick Cheney personally pulled off the 9/11 attacks were part and parcel of every old hippy and young hipster fevered imagination. To believe them the 2008 elections were to be stopped by another false flag terror attack and Bush would become de facto King George. Wow, what ever happened to that one?

In the middle you have the evergreen kooks, the Ruby Ridge, Waco, supporters of Ron Paul types. Summer, Spring, Winter or Fall these guys are always in full bloom wackyness. They spend a lot of time listening to Alex Jones and stockpiling C-rations in underground bunkers preparing for the end times. You had to feel sorry for them when nothing happened on Y2K.

Well here it is 2009 and a black man is in office, GWB is regarded as the worst president since Nixon and the conspiracy theorist are fast trying to adapt their natural born propensity to see boogie men under the bed for the new era. The “Bill Clinton had the Vince Foster murdered” conservatives tin foil hat types are poised to make a comeback ready to jump on any seemingly suspicious act by Barack Obama. The first salvo for this a new class of conspiratist are called “Birthers” who claim Obama isn’t eligible to be president of the United States because of question as to his birth. Never mind the fact the validity of Obama’s eligibility have no grounding in evidence. Courts across the country have summarily rejected the movement’s theory.

Discredited theories is a constant in a country with a history of partisan division, a country in which, surveys have shown 50% of the public believe in UFOs and 72% percent believes astrology works. If you want to promote this sort of stuff, you certainly have a large receptive audience. So I suspect there will be no shortage of loons to poke fun at.