The Plot(s) Sicken
Good lord. The New York Post reports some poll results that should make thinking people very nervous.
November 24, 2007 — Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.
And that's not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States.
The poll found that more than one out of three Americans believe Washington is concealing the truth about UFOs and the Kennedy assassination – and most everyone is sure the rise in gas prices is one vast oil-industry conspiracy.
Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Only 30 percent said the 9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.
I cannot find the poll itself. I'm hoping that the poll is just plain wrong here. It was bad last year, but this shows an enormous deterioration. This is madness writ large. Without the raw data from the poll, it is impossible to judge how good the poll results are or how much overlap there is in the groups of conspiracy theorists. I would like to see all that before I write anything further on this matter.
By syn, November 24, 2007 @ 11:53 am
I’m still trying to understand why so many living in freedom actively migrate towards nanny statist governance. Now the double whammy is that all these people who need to rely on the government to care for their every need are most likely the very same conspiracy theorists who believe the government is out the get them.
By NortonPete, November 24, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
If a pollster called me I either wouldn’t pickup or quickly end the call.
My opinion of the type of people who respond to polls or who conduct polls is not very good. I have never met a person who was polled or would admit to it but I can imagine a high response by conspiracy theorists to a pollster.
By curtis, November 24, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
The results of 16 years of gummint edumication.
By Neo, November 24, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
So why haven’t the Democrats investigated this this obvious conspiracy against the “little guy” that they so dearly represent ?
Because even they know it’s not true, or is it that they represent the “rich”. Oh, it both.
By K T Cat, November 25, 2007 @ 8:56 am
My son suggested that the real conspiracy is the belief in the conspiracies. The government is secretly spreading conspiracy theories to make us all think that they are sufficiently omniscient and omnipotent to pull this off. That way, they get the fear and obedience from the populace without having to do the work of actually micromanaging a 9/11-type attack.
It’s brilliant, I tell you! Brilliant!