What political affiliation tells us about belief in conspiracies

Results from here.



Here we have the percentages that believe in certain conspiratorial agendas.

CONSPIRACY	% of DEMOCRATS who responded "yes"	% of REPUBLICANS who responded "yes"
Obama wants to ban all guns	14%	62%
Obama is trying to stay in office beyond 2017	11%	44%
Muslims are secretly enacting Sharia Law in the USA	11%	44%
The Government has assassinated counterculture leaders	9%	14%
The Government has assassinated political leaders like MLK	23%	27%
World bankers are eliminating paper currency to induce slavery	10%	27%
There is a Men In Black group that hides aliens from the public	7%	7%
A secret society produces leaders to serve the interests of the elite	20%	15%

So what does this tell us? Mostly that belief in conspiracies is normally pretty low in both parties unless Obama or Muslims are involved and then all bets are off.



As a result it becomes increasingly clear why Obama Derangement is so rife and why so little political progress is being made. It is hard to have a functioning political system when one side thinks the other side is up to conspiratorial shenanigans.

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