![]() In a study of 914 adults in London, University of Westminster’s Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham of University College London found that 4.5 percent of respondents espoused an alien abduction theory, 5.5 percent believed the two were spies taken down by the Japanese, and only 32 percent endorsed a relatively undramatic account that the plane crashed into the Pacific after running out of gas. There are, for instance lots of conspiracy theories about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the pilot who disappeared in 1932 in the Pacific. Social psychiatrists have investigated conspiracy theorists, so we do know something about them. Goethe and Weber had a theory of “elective affinity,” that sometimes differing ideas just go together. Of course, it may well be that he favors conspiracy theories which also, if they were widely believed, would give him the power to do things he wants to do. The most powerful man in the world is the sort who cuts out articles from the newspaper on obscure subjects and papers the walls with them, trying to track down the FBI cover-up of Area 51. Maybe the reason liberals keep trying to discover the real strategy behind these unbalanced rants is that they don’t want to face the explosive truth in the first paragraph of this piece. Some think he is preparing the way for further voter suppression laws.īut all this theorizing is too clever by half. Some think he is trying to divert attention from his scandals and legal problems. No one can understand why exactly Trump says these things. It is based on discredited studies, whether academic or the Florida GOP attempt at a purge of voter rolls (which ended up affecting like 80 people and one of those was a WW II vet). ![]() ![]() Then the last of the series came, saying that he would have won the popular vote if several million undocumented aliens had not voted.Īs Politifact points out, though way too cautiously and politely, this meme comes from conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones. Americans have given the nuclear codes to that crazy uncle you have to sit through Thanksgiving with who watches nut cases like Alex Jones and red-facedly proclaims that FEMA is keeping Americans in concentration camps.ĭonald Trump still has his Twitter account and obsessed over the weekend about Jill Stein’s request for a recount in and some other states.
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