It’s simple, really. There’s a small, powerful group who knows a lot more than you do. These people are driven by lust for power, or money, or by pure evil, and “they” are the ones controlling events. All kinds of events, and very little happens by chance. That, according to classic conspiracy theory, is how the world is run. One problem: there’s plenty of debate over who “they” are. Could be the CIA, the Catholic Church, the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateralists, Jews, Masons, the aliens who landed in Roswell, or a chilling combination of the above, which I could tell you about, but then I’d have to kill you.
It would all be kind of funny, except that conspiracy theories can have consequences, moving from fuzzy thinking to violent action.
Guests:
Robert Alan Goldberg, author, “Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America”
Yusuf Agha, information consultant, wrote article, “Osama Gump,” for CounterPunch
and Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates
and John McManus, president of the John Birch Society.