PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FROM BOTH PARTIES EMBRACE CONSPIRACY THEORIES

 

"The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify."   Bob Dylan

Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for President with the glib tongue and ready smile, recently presented an alternative view of the events of 9/11, both in the Atlantic Monthly and in a CNN interview.

“I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero. But if we’re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9/11, we have a 9/11 commission, absolutely that should be an answer the public knows the answer to,” Ramaswamy told reporter John Hendrickson.

It's an odd issue to raise at this point, but the apparent purpose of Ramaswamy's 9/11 speculation is to draw some kind of correlation between 9/11 and the January 6 insurrection.

Ramaswamy's timing for raising such an issue may be a smart move with a GOP/MAGA base seemingly ripe for being duped by conspiracy theories after 8 years of having their brains pounded daily with misinformation and lies from the Trumpster.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Jumping headfirst into the conspiracy theory playground is Democratic candidate for President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who makes Ramaswamy look like a mere piker in terms of swallowing the unproven, unsubstantiated.

Kennedy identifies himself with some whoppers; believing Covid 19 was targeted to attack Caucasians and Blacks, links mass shootings to the availability of the drug prozac, claims the 2004 election was "stolen" and several more.

With candidates from both parties pushing conspiracy narratives, the 2024 election gets "curiouser and curiouser."