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Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us | Life and style | The Guardian
12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us
According to .. Public Policy Polling .. 12 million people in the US believe that interstellar lizards in people suits rule our country. We imported that .. belief from across the pond, where professional conspiracy theorist David Icke has .. maintained that the Queen of England is a blood-drinking, shape-shifting alien ...
The most widely appealing conspiracy theories are the ones that allow a person to insert their own villain of choice, Uscinski says. For example, conspiracy theories around the assassination of JFK are so popular in part because they allow believers to blame the coverup on whichever power they most fear: the US government and associated agencies like the CIA or the former Soviet Union and Cuba ...
While most conspiracies tend to gain traction in a very small number of people, when someone acts on a conspiracy, it can become dangerous very quickly. Cliven Bundy’s followers have tended to believe in everything from the government secretly microchipping millennials to the United Nations running the Bureau of Land Management. People who believe that the mass shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, was faked have harassed the families of children that were killed ...
I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE ARE THAT MANY FOLKS IN THE US.........OMG.............
But if there are that many........... could they be on to something the rest of us are in denial of............:doh
12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us
According to .. Public Policy Polling .. 12 million people in the US believe that interstellar lizards in people suits rule our country. We imported that .. belief from across the pond, where professional conspiracy theorist David Icke has .. maintained that the Queen of England is a blood-drinking, shape-shifting alien ...
The most widely appealing conspiracy theories are the ones that allow a person to insert their own villain of choice, Uscinski says. For example, conspiracy theories around the assassination of JFK are so popular in part because they allow believers to blame the coverup on whichever power they most fear: the US government and associated agencies like the CIA or the former Soviet Union and Cuba ...
While most conspiracies tend to gain traction in a very small number of people, when someone acts on a conspiracy, it can become dangerous very quickly. Cliven Bundy’s followers have tended to believe in everything from the government secretly microchipping millennials to the United Nations running the Bureau of Land Management. People who believe that the mass shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, was faked have harassed the families of children that were killed ...
I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE ARE THAT MANY FOLKS IN THE US.........OMG.............
But if there are that many........... could they be on to something the rest of us are in denial of............:doh