When did the right start heavily embracing conspiracy theories?

[Unknown Poster]

To further my point, don't a lot of 9/11 conspiracies lean on anti semitism and jewish resentment? Shadow banks and Saudi alliances and all that. That's a direct pipeline into the Tea Party, and post 2010 Republican base, George Soros and all of those theories. Conspiracy theories have long relied on racism and bias.

Most of these conspiracy theories veer into anti-semetism and racism if you pay attention to them long enough.

Always some ridiculous nonsense about jews controlling the weather and all convincing white Americans to breed themselves out through race mixing...and convincing white people that black Americans are poor and unsuccessful due to genetic inferiority...not due to white racism, redlining, white flight, economic warfare, slavery, and colonialism.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

really that theory in itself is based on some grand racist notion that Arabs were too dumb to pull off a scheme like that

which tells you the mind of the average conspiracy theorist ain't worth a pot to piss in

i feel like whenever i would lurk conspiracy forums even in like the 9/11 era there was a lot of right wingers on there, definitely a lot of racists.

 

[Geek Nasty]

This wing of the party has been around for at least 60 years. The fringe nutjobs, "libertarians," and open nazis got pushed out of the party way back then. I heard it was the Civil Rights era attempt to make the party presentable. When Bush left office, Republicans though they were sunk. But all the fringe nutjobs were still as excited about conspiracies and racism, so the establishment welcomed them in. The problem was they had to accept all the nutjob conspiracies as rational.

The modern Republican party is basically that now. Armed and ready for demagogues to turn them into a full-blown Nazi revolution. The establishment is toothless too because they sold out to them #1, and #2 they're on the record fukking up whenever they were in power and ignoring teh base (Republicans had absolute control of government for 6 years under Bush and never tried to ban abortion).

 

[Wild self]

This wing of the party has been around for at least 60 years. The fringe nutjobs, "libertarians," and open nazis got pushed out of the party way back then. I heard it was the Civil Rights era attempt to make the party presentable. When Bush left office, Republicans though they were sunk. But all the fringe nutjobs were still as excited about conspiracies and racism, so the establishment welcomed them in. The problem was they had to accept all the nutjob conspiracies as rational.

The modern Republican party is basically that now. Armed and ready for demagogues to turn them into a full-blown Nazi revolution. The establishment is toothless too because they sold out to them #1, and #2 they're on the record fukking up whenever they were in power and ignoring teh base (Republicans had absolute control of government for 6 years under Bush and never tried to ban abortion).

Blame Barry Goldwater for that.

He turned the GOP into American Nazis in 1964.

 

[Geek Nasty]

i feel like whenever i would lurk conspiracy forums even in like the 9/11 era there was a lot of right wingers on there, definitely a lot of racists.

It's REAL important to pay attention to them too. Because it informs you what's underlying a lot of their irrational behavior. I used to occasionally watch Fox and Friends in the morning and without failure, all the rightwing nutjobs would just come on the internet and recite whatever conspiracy theory someone threw out there like it was fact.

95% of Democrats don't know who the fukk George Soros is, but I bet you 1/2 of Republicans do. He's their liberal boogie man

 

[Jalether]

That's on the front page of Breitbart.



The Republican party is turning into the party of conspiracy theorist nutjobs, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, christo fascists, neo-nazis, neo-confederates, white nationalists, race realists, white supremacists, militias, and just domestic terrorists.

This party is COOKED TO PERFECTION!
done!
Rather than face the truth about Trump's incom]etence Republicans would rather consume lies and conspiracy theories that void him from any accountability for his actions!

"turning"It's been that since atleast the days of Rush Limbaugh. The party widely embraced/believed
obama's birtherism and that He was a muslim (most still do). the republicans that haven't been on the alex
jones gravy either publicly or privately, for the last 10 years are the minority.

 

[Xcoyote]

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17583489.2019.1632574

The right has been that shyt since forever