No matter who you are, there is
somebody somewhere conspiring to take away what’s yours and bring about your
dismal undoing. In fact, I’m a little
bit concerned with what I don’t know about you.
But you would never….
Anyway, we all know there are people
plotting things we can only suspect because they are so cunning. Like compromising the great rugged
individualist spirit of the American West, limiting religious freedom, undermining
our government, infiltrating our lives, spying on individuals, verifying the
truth of our words, or helping women do things some think the government should
prevent them from doing. Plotting things
like cheating us out of our tax deductions, covering up the real purposes and
consequences of foreign policy, and trying to make us believe we live in a free
market society. Plotting to steal our
guns and steal God from our lives. One
only has to remember Wounded Knee, Philadelphia
Mississippi, and the Crusades for
egregious examples.
Conspiracy
theories are popular because they require only greed, fear and hate—verified facts
are annoying distractions. Skillful
charlatans prey on trusting victims who have forgotten the old rule: “Trust,
but verify.” The real conspiracy is the
emotional manipulation that relieves you of your civility, your grasp on
reality, your cash and your responsibility for informed citizenship. Around here, we call it the piracy that you
do to yourself. If there IS a conspiracy
out there, it can only succeed in the presence of greed, and/or fear and hate.
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