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Junkheap
When you start having ridiculous, implausible conspiracy theories overshadowing real conspiracies and influencing how people vote, you have a problem.
Junkheap
When you start having ridiculous, implausible conspiracy theories overshadowing real conspiracies and influencing how people vote, you have a problem.
A Democracy is simply a nation where the populace are given the vote, ie participate equally.
Hate to burst your bubble, but it is.
The government of the United States of America is the federal government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that constitute the United States
boymonkey74
I read this last night, good to see many comments actually supporting conspiracy theories, I think the populace is waking up to all the lies.
paraphi
boymonkey74
I read this last night, good to see many comments actually supporting conspiracy theories, I think the populace is waking up to all the lies.
Indeed, I totally agree with you. Many conspiracy theories I have seen are just ridiculous lies and fictions, created by people who have a cynical agenda and / or a desire to pray on the weak minded and / or pander to a particular worldview.
Sometimes I just wonder why some people who purport to be intelligent and open minded can believe some of the theories.
Regards
Many conspiracy theories I have seen are just ridiculous lies and fictions, created by people who have a cynical agenda and / or a desire to pray on the weak minded and / or pander to a particular worldview.
There is a growing assumption that everything we are told by the authorities is wrong, or not quite as it seems. That the truth is being manipulated or obscured by powerful vested interests.
It would be wrong to write off all conspiracy theorists as "swivel-eyed loons," with "poor personal hygiene and halitosis,"
They are not all "crazy". The difficult part, for those of us trying to make sense of a complex world, is working out which parts of the conspiracy theory to keep and which to throw away.
stumason
On the one hand, we deride the Government for being useless, incompetent etc but then on the other, we ascribe outlandishly convoluted plots that go almost without a hitch to them - a very odd dichotomy...
Bassago
There is a growing assumption that everything we are told by the authorities is wrong, or not quite as it seems. That the truth is being manipulated or obscured by powerful vested interests.
Now why would anyone believe that? Right off the top of my head I'd say - NSA lies to congress and GCHQ desperate attempts at coverup. That's just one off the top. The governments are lying and deceiving us.
The more information we have about what governments and corporations are up to the less we seem to trust them.
OptimusSubprime
reply to post by Wirral Bagpuss
Something needs to destroy democracy... before it democracy destroys us.