Oh please. Conspiracy theories abound in the world these days. However, the Right can’t even hold a candle to the Left. Case in point, you cite the “birth certificate” canard. Those people are fringe lunatics, and even Conservatives don’t believe them or care, and Republicans I know mock them.
However, the Left has totally mainstreamed their conspiracy theories. They have allowed 9/11 theories to flourish without condemning them (Rosie O’Donnell is a far more mainstream Progressive than any of the birth certificate crowd are mainstream Conservatives). There have even been Democratic 9/11 conspiracy believers IN CONGRESS!
And there are other conspiracy theories that are so deeply entrenched on the Left that they have entered the popular consciousness and aren’t even being questioned at all. For example: the “Bush Lied” crowd. He most certainly did not. Every western intelligence agency and the United Nations itself had concluded that Saddam had WMD again (need I stress the word AGAIN? the fact that he had used them before was its own evidence). On this one I will refer you to a very good article from Norman Podhoretz. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007540
And yet the chorus continues, and some of these people are going to come back and attack me for even saying that at all here. I myself always had reservations about Bush, but truth matters to me far more than politics.
The Left introduced to the world the very roots of the modern conspiracy theory: It was they that succumbed to the Marxist interpretations of culture, who elevated feelings above reason, and who embraced the post-modern conceit that truth is whatever you want it to be.
Any right-wing conspiracy theory is just stupid people imitating the true masters of the art. The Leftists are so far gone they don’t know night from day anymore.
