Role Reversal
Cross posted at Stix Blog
In the wild world of politics, what one side does one day,the other side will do the next day. Yes in all of the history of the world, political philosophies and opinions change and often reverse. Today at The American Thinker, LarreyAnderson has a great post about how we know that Liberals are out of power. Just as we knew the Conservaitves were out of power in the 20th century. See, the war of ideas always has a winner and a loser. So when one side wins the argument, it is hard forthe other side to believe that they are wrong. With that, you get conspiracy theories abound. And in the 20 the century, we had the John Birch Society. Today we have the Truthers, and the people with BDS. So in a way the conspiracy theory nuts swithed from the Birchers to the Truthers or the people with BDS. It is easier for people to believe they were cheated out of power, than for them to realize that their ideas have lost the war.
The Left Trades Places
One sign that the left is losing (and subconsciously knows it) is the prominence of conspiracy thinking in its fantasies.When I was in the ninth grade I decided to run for student body president of my junior high school, and became suddenly and vitally interested in all things political. My father’s friend had given him some copies of American Opinion, the John Birch Society magazine. I read them cover-to-cover.I learned that the Trilateralists, the CFR, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Bildebergers, the Jews, and the Imperial House of Hapsburg really ran America and-for that matter-the entire world. And they did it in secret.I distinctly remember marching into the kitchen with the literature. I was panicky over the impending junior high election, but my misgivings had not stopped my family from spreading word of my campaign throughout the neighborhood and beyond. “How come … if nobody in this family can keep a secret … how come all these guys could keep all these secrets all these years?” I demanded of my father.
Dad grinned down at me and answered, “They couldn’t and they didn’t. Politics are public. You can’t run for student body president without people knowing. People love to talk … even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.” He took the magazines from me and threw them in the trash.
My dad should have been a political philosopher, instead of a building contractor, because with those few sentences, and that one toss, he helped me understand two fundamental political truths: (1) conspiracy theories are rarely valid; and (2), conspiracy theories are almost always promulgated by people who do not currently wield political power. In other words, by people who do not know what they are talking about. —- The American Thinker
