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Originally Posted by kerowo
Primarily because truthers tend to come across as mouth breathing nut jobs who think the government is simultaneously geniuses and imbeciles.
Three factors at work here -
1) Alex Jones, David Icke, 'no planes,' 'space lasers,' the normal tendency for everything outside the mainstream to attract neurotics basically (future Orwell Explains You to You potential there but I digress)
2) sheer prejudice from a lifetime of being swaddled in the US corporate media, which, sorry to be the one to tell you this, has been deep-state compromised since forever and since its buy-up by half a dozen huge corporate firms 15-20 years ago has essentially become Pravda
3) the 'geniuses & imbeciles' paradigm - this is actually an understandable head-scratcher for most people, based on a misunderstanding by the public of how governments work, particularly from the 20th century on. That is to say, a lack of recognition of the difference between the massive bureaucratic structure of the public government & its offices, and the private networks of interest groups that shape and execute policy whether in or out of power officially. This separation is particularly striking in the modern day with the exponential growth of the 'deep state' - the military-intelligence complexes and their completely black budgets, the revolving door between corporate boards and appointed officials, so on and so forth. The former is the 'imbecile' factor; the latter is the 'evil genius' factor, to put it in an absurdly oversimplified way.
I again have to take a moment to express my astonishment at the fact that the 'politics unchained' section of a board of allegedly intelligent, skeptical, anti-superstition and anti-conventional wisdom people is apparently unfamiliar with what I again think of as basic concepts from about a year's worth of off-hours digging and research.