> B wrote:
>
>
> ...web comments are really fucking depressing. But so
> are calls into a lot political call-in shows. One
> show on C-Span whose name I forget, I watched it,
> thinking the audience must be a fairly liberal,
> bookish sort, like what I imagine an NPR or PBS
> audience to be -- everyone who called in was a flaming
> political idiot and the majority of their stuff was of
> a conspiracy-theory type nature. That was the dominant
> theme: Conspiracy theory: UN, Federal Reserve, secret
> elites plotting to make us into one-world government
> types of theories. Like the old militia movement and
> John Birch lines.
>
>
> About this, our own Michael Yates wrote in July:
>
>> This is a land tailor-made for conspiracy theories and
>> strange beliefs.
All you older leftists who read Richard Hofstadter in the 1960s and 1970s and have some bad memories of him, take another look.
Doug