The Truth is Out There - or not

I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, you know, Hitler and Elvis are still alive and that guy that invented the 200MPG carburetor sold it for $50,000,000. I know it’s not true but its fun.

But in today’s world there are many really whacky theories promulgated mostly from the left. They have little concreteness lof any real ideas to offer the American voter so they manifest and propagate these inane ideas like:

• The Government (CIA Probably) blew up the Twin Towers
• NO WAIT The Jews blew up the Twin Towers
• Bush's people blew holes in the dikes in New Orleans (Spike Lee)
• And Oil Prices are dropping due to the Fall Elections

I wish the government (Bush) had the absolute power people insist it does. It does not. In fact, it's kind of anemic.

When bad things happen, these people MUST blame someone. And if good things happen, be sure to give no credit to anyone right of center and certainly not that anti-christ Bush. National Review Online has a great article you should read on these wacky conspirator revelators. Here's a bit of it:

“Conspiracy theorist” isn’t quite right either. These are priests of the Church of Conspiracy, a heresy of Gnostic heresy which holds that man is the ruler of history, the demiurge of all events that befall us. Powerful and unseen forces lurk in the shadows. The conspiracy theorists know they’re out there, even as the enemy’s name changes almost daily: Big Oil, capitalists, Republicans, or perhaps those eternal pullers of mankind’s puppet strings, the Jews.

The masons of dementia build upon a bedrock of one absolute truth: Bad things happen, and someone must be responsible. Upon this bedrock they pile convenient and selective facts like bricks. Contradictory facts are clever lies. When Popular Mechanics debunked 9/11 hokum, the immediate response from conspiratorialists was “cover-up!” and “CIA front!” because in this perverted faith, denying the ultimate truth must be proof of a lie.

This rough beast slouches toward sedition because it assumes not that our leaders are knaves or even mere criminals, but that they are murderous Supermen with no loyalty to nation, decency or law. Our Constitution is a fraud, a charade for the rubes some of us naively call citizens. If you disagree, you’re either fool or “in on it.” In his 1964 essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Richard Hofstadter demonstrated that this fever of the mind is as old as America itself and its outbreaks flare up across the ideological landscape. What is so sad and frightening is that this diseased thinking is reaching epidemic proportions. More than a third of Americans believe the U.S. government was likely to have been involved in 9/11.

Oliver Stone and Michael Moore have done their best to inflame an ignorant unthinking portion of our country. I guess when what you believe in is every day shown more and more to be false, you will believe anything no matter how weird to desperately hang on to your warped view of the world.