One of Mad Dog's Favorite movies is "Men In Black," where Tommy Lee Jones buys up tabloids with pictures of space aliens on the front page because those are the only newspapers which have real news, as opposed to fake news, and the whole premise is that the government maintains a secret service to keep a lid on all the space aliens from Area 51 and beyond because "a person is smart, but people are stupid," and could not handle the truth. All the outlandish stuff we have always laughed off turns out to be true, and the reasonable sounding stuff is just fake news.
I laughed myself breathless during that film, but it turns out a lot of Americans are not laughing at this stuff--they take it both seriously and literally.
In 1945, at the end of World War Two, Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, opened up the liberated concentration camps and directed photographers to document everything, "So nobody can ever say this did not happen."
It was a good thought, but it did not have the desired effect.
But now we have a whole part of the electorate which believes in nothing and suspects everything. Standard methods of proof and validation have been abandoned and the only truth is that whatever the authorities say is wrong and likely malacious.
This might explain the election of Barack Obama with the votes of people who voted for Trump the next time: All that mattered to this mob is disruption.
So here are a few highlights from true believer MAGA mob acolytes, in no particular order, other than wow factor:
1. The Holocaust never happened
2. Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon: the moon landing was staged
3. The 9/11 attack was an inside job by the American government
4. The Sandy Hook massacre of children was faked; if you weren't at the morgue, you cannot know any child actually ever died
5. Childhood vaccines cause autism
6. Vaccines have been used to inject chips into unsuspecting Americans
7. Trump won his re-election bid in 2020 but Biden stole the election
8. Climate change is a Chinese hoax
9. A world wide cabal of pedophiles controls the Democratic Party and is directed by a guy named Soros, who also has a side gig starting wildfires in California with space lasers.
10. The Clintons murdered Vince Foster and Jeffrey Epstein
11. Justin Trudeau is the secret son of Fidel Castro
12. COVID 19 was a lab leak designed by Tony Fauci and executed by China
13. Haitian immigrants ate the pet dogs and cats of Ohio townsfolk and Democrats have imported immigrants to replace white voters and these voters are under the command of Democrats
14. The FBI planted 274 agents to provoke the January 6th attacks
15. School shootings are planned and organized by ISIS to prompt gun control and disarm America.
16. Russia invaded Ukraine because the U.S. and Ukraine were secretly developing biological weapons
17. The murder rate in Washington, D.C. was cut massively by Trump's National Guard troops.
18. Polio vaccine caused more polio than polio epidemics
19. The January 6th attack was just a normal bunch of tourists trying to see the building: It was a day of love.
20. The President of Honduras, who had been sent to jail for drug trafficking, was just another innocent victim of Joe Biden.
This is the base belief package of American swing voters.
As usual, the ghost of Christopher Hitchens has the best summary. The irony is not lost on Mag Dog that the most illuminated truth comes from someone who actually no longer exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSHGvi7bEc
