The sociologists owe us a good, useful, short, simple word for "collective insanity." I agree with the makers of this fake tabloid garbage that there is indeed something wrong with America. This is a symptom.
It's hard to know how this movement towards conspiracies got started. Of course it's an expression of our overall move to the right. Two political scientists, Rosenthal and Poole (easily Googled) did a respectable study of voting patterns in the congress and found that the drift to the extreme right began around 1970.
Note that it was before Obama so racism can't account for all of it.
In any case, the rough beast has slouched towards Bethlehem and given birth to this.
It's hard to know how this movement towards conspiracies got started. Of course it's an expression of our overall move to the right. Two political scientists, Rosenthal and Poole (easily Googled) did a respectable study of voting patterns in the congress and found that the drift to the extreme right began around 1970.
Note that it was before Obama so racism can't account for all of it.
In any case, the rough beast has slouched towards Bethlehem and given birth to this.