Conspiracism has been with us for sometime. For those of us that were here back in the heyday of the 9/11 nonsense can remember how so much of that was built on old, old conspiracy theories reworked into a new narrative.
But that was always fringe. I honestly can't remember anyone in real power that believed in the stuff (aside from Chavez whose power was debatable). But that is now gone. The right has gone off the rails and conspiracy belief is now rampant among both lawmakers and their staff. We saw that the NSC had loons in it that were circulating a memo that alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood secretly controls Black Lives Matter. In fact it didn't even attempt to establish it as a truth instead it treated the notion as established knowledge despite there being zero evidence for it.
And then we have the old bogeyman of Soros. George Soros has supposedly been bankrolling pretty much every liberal cause conservatives hate from Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anti-Trump rallies, the Sandy Hook "hoax", gun laws and nutritious school lunches. With there being a common allegation that protestors are all being paid $25 an hour to be at these events I guess Soros has access to that $90 trillion that Rothschild supposedly has as a result from bankrolling every war ever.
And another reminder of how this is all now mainstream comes when a Republican lawmaker from Idaho, Bryan Zollinger, posts an article on his facebook feed that alleges it makes sense that the Nazis at Charlottesville were actually there because of a plot paid for by Soros and executed by Barack Obama. An article with quotes like this: “We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative agenda.” Which is a thing that certainly isn't known.
Helping this along of course is the sentient eldritch abomination fart known as Trump who continues to advance the absurd idea that the media are "the enemies of America" who continue to advance "fake news" while never, ever substantiating just what makes any of it in any way fake.
With the onset of mainstream conspiracism have we truly entered the post fact era?
More importantly how do we get away from this? How does one convince a Trump supporter that machines took their jobs not a Soros funded pan-global conspiracy?
But that was always fringe. I honestly can't remember anyone in real power that believed in the stuff (aside from Chavez whose power was debatable). But that is now gone. The right has gone off the rails and conspiracy belief is now rampant among both lawmakers and their staff. We saw that the NSC had loons in it that were circulating a memo that alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood secretly controls Black Lives Matter. In fact it didn't even attempt to establish it as a truth instead it treated the notion as established knowledge despite there being zero evidence for it.
And then we have the old bogeyman of Soros. George Soros has supposedly been bankrolling pretty much every liberal cause conservatives hate from Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anti-Trump rallies, the Sandy Hook "hoax", gun laws and nutritious school lunches. With there being a common allegation that protestors are all being paid $25 an hour to be at these events I guess Soros has access to that $90 trillion that Rothschild supposedly has as a result from bankrolling every war ever.
And another reminder of how this is all now mainstream comes when a Republican lawmaker from Idaho, Bryan Zollinger, posts an article on his facebook feed that alleges it makes sense that the Nazis at Charlottesville were actually there because of a plot paid for by Soros and executed by Barack Obama. An article with quotes like this: “We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative agenda.” Which is a thing that certainly isn't known.
Helping this along of course is the sentient eldritch abomination fart known as Trump who continues to advance the absurd idea that the media are "the enemies of America" who continue to advance "fake news" while never, ever substantiating just what makes any of it in any way fake.
With the onset of mainstream conspiracism have we truly entered the post fact era?
More importantly how do we get away from this? How does one convince a Trump supporter that machines took their jobs not a Soros funded pan-global conspiracy?
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2woej9P
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