Skeptic Project

http://www.alternet.org/news/143007/why_right-wing_demagogues_are_tying_to_peddle_ludicrous_conspiracy_theories</p>

Great article on the insanity of conspiracy theories and the ones who support them in the USA.

Some quotes:

"With a wink and a nod, right-wing apparatchiks are networking with the apocalyptic Christian right and resurgent armed militias — a volatile mix of movements awash in conspiracy theories. Scratch the surface and you find people peddling bogus conspiracy theories about liberal secular humanists, collectivist labor bosses, Muslim terrorists, Jewish cabals, homosexual child molesters and murderous abortionists."

"This right-wing campaign is about scapegoating bogus targets by using conspiracy theories to distract attention from insurance companies who are the real culprits behind escalating healthcare costs."

"The core narrative of many popular conspiracy theories is that “the people” are held down by a conspiracy of wealthy secret elites manipulating a vast legion of corrupt politicians, mendacious journalists, propagandizing schoolteachers, nefarious bankers and hidden subversive cadres. This is not an expression of a healthy political skepticism about state power or legitimate calls for reform or radical challenges to government or corporate abuses. This is an irrational anxiety that pictures the world as governed by powerful long-standing covert conspiracies of evildoers who control politics, the economy, and all of history. Scholars call this worldview “conspiracism.”"

That's true aaronmhatch, but the presidency of George W Bush taught me the left (slightly less than far right in America) will say almost anything to sound right, even support conspiracy theories.

That seems to ring true with what my dad says:

"The liberals talk, and the conservatives do."

The ones Rush Limbaugh hates.

It gets irritatingly confusing.

"In my opinion conservatives in the US have a fundamental problem sharing power with anyone who doesn't agree with them."

Agreed 100%.

I always say conservatives don't hate America, they just don't want to share it with anyone.

The right does not have a monopoly on crazy.

I promise.

The Daily Show has it's moments, but sometimes like when Jon Stewart just stares at the camera, that's not really funny. I got sick of the Bush stuff by 2003, and I got sick of the Obama stuff even before he was president because everyone kept calling him a Socialist. That's an insult to Socialists.