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Monday, September 10, 2018 - post date

CONSPIRACY THEORY
Belief in conspiracy theory, the belief that real history is nothing but a series of evil conspiracies is mass mental illness that has degraded our public/political discourse to the point where Donnie Pee Pee/Pussy-Grabber has become the first blackmailed, Russian Puppet/traitor/rapist president of the United States of America.
My father was one of the earliest victims of this mass psychosis.
Shortly after the Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination was released in the mid-1960's my father began to passionately, vehemently claim the official government report was a lie.
Back then people called my father 'totally insane'.
And there was some truth to this.
He was an early, active opponent of the Vietnam War. It infuriated him, maddened him that the majority of the American People were so powerless to stop this senseless carnage.
And there were some post-modern, personal issues that he had about lack of control over a rapidly changing, very confusing world.
His political madness was ahead of his times.
Now - if you don't believe JFK was killed by dark, nefarious, overarching, evil conspiracy, if you believe JFK was killed by a lone gunman - Lee Harvey Oswald, you are considered to be totally, dangerously insane.
Conspiracy theory is the never-ending whining of those who perceive themselves as being weak, totally powerless in the face of conspiring evil.
This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
All conspiracy theory goes to the same place.
The People are weak, powerless, condemned to be oppressed, victims of invincible evil. And there is nothing that can be done about it.
THIS IS NOT TRUE!!!!
If you really study history - real history. You will find there were other times in United States history when The People were faced with run-away kleptocracy (rule by thieves) and fascism.
During the 1890's, the United States was ruled by the robber barons and their run-away kleptocracy. Anti-monopoly laws were passed. U.S. Capitalism was reformed. Conditions were created that nurtured a middle-class.
After the collapse of U.S. Capitalism in the 1930's, and the rise of fascism in the United States and Europe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt reformed capitalism and again created the conditions that nurtured a middle-class, that defined the U.S. until the 1970's.
And FDR and The People did whatever was necessary to defeat fascism.
And eventually, The People created the political conditions that ended the senseless carnage of Vietnam.
These are - no doubt - dark times.
I can't help but to refer to the history of Germany in the 1930's.
After the Nazi's won the 1934 election and took total political control of Germany, they began to face vehement, passionate political opposition. Their response to this was to burn down the Reichtag, the German Parliament, and scape-goat a psychotic, Communist, Jewish refugee.
There is no telling what Donnie Pee Pee/Pussy-Grabber is capable of as his regime crumbles.
Perhaps he is, right now, contemplating the unthinkable. Something like staging a bio-terrorism attack and then circumventing the November elections by declaring martial law.
And yet, I'm not saying that The People are weak, powerless, condemned to be oppressed victims of evil. And there is nothing we can do about it.
U.S. History demonstrates that when The People were faced with fascism and kleptocracy in the past - THEY PREVAILED.
AND WE MUST PREVAIL AGAIN!!!!