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Conspiracies as Realities, Realities as Conspiracies
American Greatness ^ | 16 Jan, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/17/2022 3:42:52 AM PST by MtnClimber

Conspiracy projection has split apart the country. The Left has fought efforts to learn the full truth, as they project conspiracies to disguise conspirators.

American politics over the last half decade has become immersed in a series of conspiracy charges leveled by Democrats against their opponents that, in fact, are happening because of them and through them. The consequences of these conspiracies becoming reality and reality revealing itself as conspiracy have been costly to American prestige, honor, and security. As we move away from denouncing realists as conspiracists, and self-pronounced “realists” are revealed as the true conspirators, let’s review a few of the more damaging of these events.

Russians on the Brain Consider that the Trump election of 2016, the transition, and the first two years of the Trump presidency were undermined by a media-progressive generated hoax of “Russian collusion.”

The “bombshell” and “walls are closing in” mythologies dominated the network news and cable outlets. It took five years to expose them as rank agit-prop.

Robert Mueller and his “dream team” consumed $40 million of Americans’ money and 22 months of our time—to find the nothingburger that most of the country already knew was nothing. Yet the subtext of the 2018 Democratic takeover of the House was the media narrative that Trump, as Hillary Clinton put it, was an “illegitimate” president, due to Russian collusion.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed on national television that Trump was a “Russian asset.” Former CIA head John Brennan assured the nation that the president was “treasonous,” due to his supposed “lies to the American people.”

All sorts of politicians, retired military, and news anchors echoed the charges. The lies and myths of has-been British spy Christopher Steele made him a leftist hero. They were repeated ad nauseam as truth.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; vdh

1 posted on 01/17/2022 3:42:52 AM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 01/17/2022 3:43:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Chinese germ warfare, nursing home murders, paying hospitals for COVID casualties, opposition to real cures, stolen elections: it all sounds like our conspiracy theories are much more factual then whatever the Left pumps out.


3 posted on 01/17/2022 3:55:48 AM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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I still get highly irritated at conservative talk show hosts who rail against “conspiracy theories” and repeat endlessly that “I am not a conspiracy theorist” and have a terror at the thought of being accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” and spend their entire time detailing actual conspiracies.


4 posted on 01/17/2022 4:20:28 AM PST by odawg
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Everything that happens in politics is a conspiracy. Hidden agendas and politicans whose only principle is reelection is the norm.


5 posted on 01/17/2022 4:32:33 AM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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To: null and void

Somebody should start a conspiracy ping list!

Or something.

Signed,

Trevor

(Cue given ...)


6 posted on 01/17/2022 4:37:04 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: MtnClimber; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they plan to do are doing things we would shoot them for!

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The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." ~ Putt's Law

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7 posted on 01/17/2022 8:18:57 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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8 posted on 01/17/2022 8:32:24 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Taxman

Ping


9 posted on 01/17/2022 11:15:14 AM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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10 posted on 01/17/2022 11:23:54 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: odawg; Nateman

I still get highly irritated at conservative talk show hosts who rail against “conspiracy theories” and repeat endlessly that “I am not a conspiracy theorist” and have a terror at the thought of being accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” and spend their entire time detailing actual conspiracies.

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amazing how powerful the mockingbird media is in framing their message to program an otherwise intelligent person


11 posted on 01/17/2022 1:01:00 PM PST by thinden
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To: null and void

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12 posted on 01/17/2022 1:04:49 PM PST by thinden
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13 posted on 01/17/2022 2:38:06 PM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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