Do liberals have their share of conspiracy theories?

[WaltM]

The list of conspiracy theories I'm familiar with tend to all be believed by conservatives, Christians and libertarians.

JFK wasn't killed by LHO alone
Obama wasn't born in US.
9/11 was an inside job
Evolution is taught because Satan wants people to
Chemtrails are sprayed to drug the masses
Global warming is a fraud to regulate humans
Open borders is a plan to erect a super-national authority
Gays have an agenda to destroy family values
Motives are more likely for evil than for money, that's why it's more likely people promote depopulation & abortion as an end, not as a means.

As a general rule, bad things happen because people are fallen and strayed from God, abandoned our tradition, and have evil intents.

What are conspiracies that liberals tend to share or are more inclined to believe?
Wars are done for profit, for oil and corporations
Global warming denial is just capitalism at work, oil & coal protecting themselves
Bush stole 2000 & 2004
Borders is just a racist plan to divide Americans
Drug war is a racist plan to criminalize minorities
Gold standard is the rich man's scheme to secure their wealth against those without gold.
Greenbacks is the capitalist plan to defraud innocent and hard working people
Wall Street crashes because corporations are free from regulation
Health insurance & pharma want sick people, so they can be rich
Civil war was fought over slavery
Capitalists all want people to be poor.

As a general rule, everybody acts out of greed, but it's less OK for rich corporations to be greedy.

[torchbearer]

militias overthrowing their socialist utopia is their biggest conspiracy theory.

[Vessol]

Well if you go back before Obama was elected, we were all left-wing extremists ya'know?

[silus]

The list of conspiracy theories I'm familiar with tend to all be believed by conservatives, Christians and libertarians.
No, just no man. You're reaching, BADLY.

[dannno]

The most famous sort of leftist leaning (or at least his audiences tend to be left leaning) is Michael Ruppert, author of the newsletter From the Wilderness.

I saw one of his presentations at my University in California back in the spring of 2000 and he predicted 9/11, talked about Operation Northwoods, Kennedy assassination, CIA running drugs to finance various regimes, paramilitary and intelligence organizations, he told us the name of deepthroat before it was released by the MSM, and gave personal testimony of alien cover-up (he doesn't claim to have seen them himself, just based on the documents he has been able to see)

He has since come out and shown 9/11 to be an inside job.

He also talks about peak oil NOT being a myth and I think he believes in global warming..

[dannno]

Michael Ruppert, ladies and gentlemen.

YouTube - Michael Ruppert confronts CIA director about Drug Laundering (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3pl5Wxgyg)

[Fozz]

The Civil War really was fought over slavery. It is no conspiracy, and Thomas DiLorenzo never even denies it.

[WaltM]

The Civil War really was fought over slavery. It is no conspiracy, and Thomas DiLorenzo never even denies it.

then that would make those who believe it was about bankers, money and States rights the deniers and conspiracy theorists.

[Morgan Brykein]

Gun control works.

[chadhb]

John McAmnesty is not a Natural Born Citizen.

[LittleLightShining]

The most famous sort of leftist leaning (or at least his audiences tend to be left leaning) is Michael Ruppert, author of the newsletter From the Wilderness.

I saw one of his presentations at my University in California back in the spring of 2000 and he predicted 9/11, talked about Operation Northwoods, Kennedy assassination, CIA running drugs to finance various regimes, paramilitary and intelligence organizations, he told us the name of deepthroat before it was released by the MSM, and gave personal testimony of alien cover-up (he doesn't claim to have seen them himself, just based on the documents he has been able to see)

He has since come out and shown 9/11 to be an inside job.

He also talks about peak oil NOT being a myth and I think he believes in global warming..
He'll be in VT this week giving a series of talks. VERMONTERS CONFRONTING COLLAPSE: Michael Ruppert Statewide Tour (May 2010) (http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2010/04/21/vermonters-confronting-collapse-michael-ruppert-statewide-tour-may-2010)

[RM918]

It really doesn't matter. The definition of 'conspiracy theory' is very vague, and people will call something a 'conspiracy theory' in a scary voice to indicate someone is insane whenever they don't like said theory. There's no way to win an argument with these people when they'll just dismiss you by calling you nuts and refuse to let you deal with them on equal footing. They're essentially sticking their fingers in their ear and yelling, 'LALALALALACANTHEARYOUCRAZYGUY!'. Who can argue with 5 year olds?

[haaaylee]

man made global warming is real?

;)

[Kludge]

No, just no man. You're reaching, BADLY.

I think he was suggesting they're all mostly believed in by those types of people, not that all of those types of people believe in those conspiracies.



"Wars are done for profit, for oil and corporations"

& that militias are big violent quasi-terrorist organizations tb mentioned are the biggest ones I'm familiar with.

Liberals seem to like the Iron Triangle "theory," too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle


Yeah - & they have their alarmist environmentalist cult going on.

[Theocrat]

Yes, liberals have their fair share of conspiracy theories. As Michael Moore has documented:

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[WaltM]

man made global warming is real?

;)

it is according to scientists.