Why are so many liberals staunch conspiracy theorists...?
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Dont take offense to anything I say please I dont mean this to across as dickheadish.\n Its because we think about things longer and harder and explore every single option. When the President told me Osama Bin Laden attacked the towers on 9-11, I didnt just take his word for it, I researched it, I read up on the history of Bin Laden and Afghanistan and Russia, I read up on the childhood on Bin Laden, I tried to find out why hated us, not just because of our "freedom". Then upon finding out somewhat why he hated us, I decided to look into the history of the last 100 years or so of the Middle East. I looked into the history of oil in our country as well as when it was discovered in the middle east. I looked into our countrys history of involvement with the last world war and helping to create the UN and Israel. I didnt just lightly come to the conlusions I have. I didnt get them off of a political ad or chat room or because someone else told me to think that way. I try not to make a judgement on something until I have all of the facts and history in place. I just knew there was something wrong with the idea that terrorists could slip into this country unnoticed and hijack four planes. I just do not believe that it was possible to do this, without our government having advanced knowledge of this. \n Uh I dont know if this will help to explain some lines of thinking either about this war being for oil, but it basically boils down to some people feel the government is all powerful and controlled by outside corporations who sway its policy into what is best for them to make money. Some other people see the government for what it was intended to be.
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The greatest accomplishments of the right-wing conspiracy.  \n\nThe media is not liberal.  The media is irresponsible and sensationalistic.  The conservatives started calling it "liberal" and made "liberal" synonymous with irresponsible.  And they used their pundits like Rush, Hannity, and O'Reilly (the three antichrists that Nostradamus predicted) to push this agenda and it worked.  Now it has radio stations and fox news as it's own propaganda machine.  And they still get away with calling the media "liberal," whenever it suits their purpose.  \n\nThis is how politically savvy these guys are.  And liberals could do nothing to stop them.  And it hurts me to say so because I am a bleeding heart, but it is what it is.  Right-wingers are great manipulators.
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It's the American way, and they saw it on TV. Most of their reasons are unfounded, untrue, childish, and showing ignorance. They call themselves liberals.
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Most of them actually don't know. In fact, most of them think that Saddam was hiding WMDs and that we actually found some. You can thank Sean Hannity and the rest of the dolts at Fox News for these perversions of reality.
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Some people are addicted to conspiracy theories!
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I think people on both sides, left and right, spout of ignorant statements with no factual backing. Like "all liberals are baby killers" or "all republicans are rich or bible thumpers."  The terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' have negative connotations in and of themselves these days, they are bad words. Some republicans would say "I'm not rich, am not an evangelical christian, and am not an NRA member." \n\nWhat would you like facts provided for? Anything in particular? The reasons we were attacked by Isalmic Terrorists are far too complex to explain here, although some don't like to admit that. Complex is scary! Radical Islam has been around a long time. And yes, part of their disgust with us is our freedom. When your ideology states that you must follow Islam, strict fundamentalist Islam, you could see how Americans and all of their "evil" freedoms don't fit into their world view. The question you have to ask yourself is, do these Islamo-Fascists pose a threat to your way of life? \n\nIn my opinion, both parties have intelligent, passionate, well educated people that disagree on some issues. And each side has some narrow minded, self centered, hateful people who have no time to try to understand the other sides point of view. For them everything is black and white, right or wrong, there's never any gray area. That is not the world we live in. It's easier to spout of the same old bs!\n\nThe same holds true for politicians.
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Yes, I do.  It's very sobering to become a sceptical person about our government and to realize that they would knowingly condone this heinous act of murder.\nI once was one who believed that Al-Qaeda was soley behind 9/11.  Then about 2 months ago my wife brought home a DVD that reexamined all the evidence about how the WTC buildings collapsed, and it also showed a lot about the Pentagon attack.  Yes, I once was a person who thought that all these "conspiracy theorists" were just a bunch of nut cakes.  But, again, the physical evidence about what happened is quite shocking. \nThe web page below contains a lot of technical articles.  It is also easy to find other web sites that present a lot of information.  If you go to an "official" web site about 9/11, it's interesting to see how they side-step the hard questions that are being presented and cannot be sufficiently answered by jets simply crashing into buildings.\nSo, what does all of this mean?  We, the American public, have been duped.  But, what does that really change?  Has any of our personal lives really changed all that much?  How much of a difference does it personally make to us if it was Al-Qaeda or our own government that murdered innocent American lives?\nAnd so, we go on.  We live each day.  I ask myself what can I possibly do to get the truth out?  Being on the other side, one of the "conspiracy" nuts, is hard .. it's hard because no one wants to believe you.
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Their followers are going to just deny these things are happening. I guess it's impossible to explain how this happens.\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3894468264cd.htm
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Very good link, Pops but you are missing the point!  Liberals say things to garner votes (which way is the wind blowing?) not to make the world safer.  They don't even believe we are in a war, just arrest a few terrorists and haul them into US courts to mete out fines - Poof! - problem ended.  If you read the link below you will get a very different impression of what Bush must deal with (without liberal support).
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I never thought I'd be one of "those people" who believed in who believed in some far-out "conspiracy theory."  Yet, here I am ... on the other side.  And now it is so frustrating.  No "mainstream" media or establishment will touch or entertain the thought that it wasn't terrorists who orchestrated the destruction on 9/11.  And as I now write and can imagine others who read this and "dis" this idea as one of those idotic conspiracy theories, I can only think, "been there, done that."  Yeh, I've "dissed" all those people as loonies.  So, for right now it seems quite lonely because it's hard to hang one's hat on anything tangible ... there's no place to go with these new thoughts in my head.\nOkay, I'm a democrat, but people, this goes beyond politics.  This is about being mislead by some organization within our own borders!  Sure, like everyone else, on 9/11 it was obvious that it was us Americans against some foreign enemy.  We were all united.  Why can't everyone be convinced that our real enemy is not across the sea, but operates within our own country, and for some reason created 9/11 in order to obtain their greedy and misguided objectives?
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This link is interesting which says that there is no conspiracy!!\n\nhttp://www.netalive.org/topics/36595
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Easily the looniest conspiracy theory ever.\n\nThere's a great website debunking the pathetic garbage. See link below:
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It's because people believe the liberal media's antiwar message that they have been putting out since 911 to sway public oppinion against the war.  Add in a dose of several well put together, but poorly researched conspiracy theories and you get a reciepe that makes bleeding hearts and peaceniks think that the US Government is conspiring against them.  \n\nThanks for doing your part in helping to spread the truth.  You are a true American.  \n\nAnd if you have not seen this yet check it out\nhttp://www.iraqitruthproject.com/
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Dude -- people who embrace conspiracy theories are a few french fries short of a Happy Meal. They have a tendency toward a paranoid interpretation of life, and so constantly believe that someone is out to "get them." Never quite knowing who "they" are, conspiracy theorists latch on to the only thing big enough to satisfy their delusions -- government.\n\nThe CIA killed Kennedy.\nThe CIA killed Jim Jones.\nThe CIA faked the moon landings.\nThe CIA is responsible for 911.\n\nAnd on and on and on we go, right down the rabbit hole after Alice.\n\nThere's no use arguing with these people. There's no use in trying to make sense of them. They cannot bring themselves to accept facts head on, because THEN they would have to accept that the bad things that happen in their lives wasn't the fault of the CIA, it was probably their fault. And sometimes other things don't have simple explanations because life is flat-out complicated. And they don't have the courage or sophistication to accept either of those propositions. It's soooo much easier to blame "The Man."\n\nI feel your pain. Cheers, mate.
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they are mostly lapdogs for liberals, since they all seem to have been educated by the same socialist type professors with the same buzz words to know each other by...\n\ndont pay any attention to news that doesnt give you competing sides of every issue and let you make your own mind up...
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Yes, that's it.  They see their power being drained from them and they're lashing out at all of the so-called "liberals" who they think have conspired against their criminal heroes, Dubya and "Sure-Shot" Cheney.  They just can't believe that it's not just liberals who see those two for what they really are.  Now 70% of Americans believe they've taken us down the wrong path.  Are all of them liberals?  Of course not.  Only the die hards are still clutching desperately to their dream of world domination by the Republican party.  I love it.
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All of the mainstream media are liberal. Most are from the Woodward and Bernstein era. In their foggy minds they are all just about to expose the next Watergate.\n Most of these people are mentally disabled from dropping acid at Woodstock. In their deluded minds they're all just trying to stick it to the man or blame it on the system dude. In the back of their closets they still have their tie dyed Che Guevara T's and a dog eared copy of Chairman Mao's little red book.\nIn truth they hate America and everything it stands for. In a liberals upside-down mind anything that is normal or traditional is wrong and anything is freaky, kinky, or subversive is correct.\n\nSo what is the truth anyway. \nWell the way I see it is this.\nThe Republicans are right about half the time.\nBut the Democrats are always Wrong.