Conspiracy Theory Poll Report
PPP did their weekly national poll this week on Conspiracy Theories. This is sometimes cringe-worthy, but pretty hysterical. Take a look at the state of mind of Americans:
– 37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax
– 6% of voters believe Osama bin Laden is still alive
– 21% of voters say a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947 and the US government covered it up. More Romney voters (27%) than Obama voters (16%) believe in a UFO coverup
– 28% of voters believe secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. A plurality of Romney voters (38%) believe in the New World Order compared to 35% who don’t
– 28% of voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. 36% of Romney voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, 41% do not
– 20% of voters believe there is a link between childhood vaccines and autism, 51% do not
– 7% of voters think the moon landing was faked
– 13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters
– Voters are split 44%-45% on whether Bush intentionally misled about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 72% of Democrats think Bush lied about WMDs, Independents agree 48-45, just 13% of Republicans think so
– 29% of voters believe aliens exist
– 14% of voters say the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in America’s inner cities in the 1980’s
– 9% of voters think the government adds fluoride to our water supply for sinister reasons (not just dental health)
– 4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power
– 51% of voters say a larger conspiracy was at work in the JFK assassination, just 25% say Oswald acted alone
– 14% of voters believe in Bigfoot
– 15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd)
– 5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons
– 15% of voters think the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry “invent” new diseases to make money
– Just 5% of voters believe that Paul McCartney actually died in 1966
– 11% of voters believe the US government allowed 9/11 to happen, 78% do not agree
The “lizard people” one may be my favorite, and then I saw this report from Danger Room at Wired. It reports on a new claim that shape-shifting alien reptiles are guarding Barack Obama. The White House says that it can’t afford shape-shifting secret service agents. But what *are* they doing with the money they aren’t spending on White House tours, I ask you? But just take a look at the video and you tell *me* if there aren’t shape=shifting lizard people on the Secret Service payroll:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kR13y76Itks[/youtube]
The apparent size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist.
However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it.
I agree that there HAS to be some sort of advanced civilization out there. It may be that we wouldn’t be capable of recognizing it as advanced or maybe even as civilized. They don’t all have to look/act like us. (I kind of hope they don’t)
I highly doubt any of us will ever observe, much less make contact with, ET life… unless they (and far less likely us) figure out how to travel faster than light.
I dont think ET like has ever come to Earth.
True, but the vastness of the universe still equates our attempts at observation to be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. As for why they (if they exist) haven’t discovered us, we probably should wonder if they haven’t already found us and concluded that we weren’t worth contacting.
It is equally likely that contact between 2 civilizations thousands of light years apart is just not possible. If there is anything like a “universal law of balance” or as some would call it “God”, perhaps we are so few and far-between that we are “supposed” to have this corner of the galaxy all to ourselves?
What if the signals we send out in search of life are actually lethal to the life-forms it reaches and we have exterminated whole planets? (i wouldnt put it past us)
Follow up on the Costco post last week — you can get a good deal on Reynolds Heavy Duty aluminum foil in the giant economy size at Costco. It makes it very convenient to receive those mind controlling messages. You don’t want to run out and miss something important.
I’m just surprised that only 4% of Americans are capable of recognizing our reptilian overlords.
Or, it could be that by the time a civilization advances to the ability to make and detect radio waves they succumb to the byproducts of advanced civilization, such as runaway greenhouse effect, shortly thereafter. It may be that earthlings have already reached the pinnacle of advanced civilization in the universe.
The best evidence of intelligent life in the universe is that it won’t reveal itself to us.
Well, count me in w/ the JFK assassination conspiracy theory nutcases. And I haven’t read any of the books about it. Ruby didn’t murder Oswald because of an overwhelming sense of patriotism.
What a pity the surveyors didn’t ask Libertarian and other guns nuts if the real but concealed purpose behind gun registration proposals is firearm confiscation. The loony meter needle would spin furiously.
The New World Order is already here. More commonly known as multinational corporations.
Well, count me in w/ the JFK assassination conspiracy theory nutcases.
What a big joke…
Not that we could do anything about it (or bring a Bu$h to justice for their role in capturing and controlling the government) even if 99% of the people agreed.
Duh.
The New World Order is already here. More commonly known as multinational corporations.
Yeah… but if a group of men in tights named themselves the NWO and were entertaining Americans with the theatrical production of controlled opposition by beating each other up then that would mean that the New World Order didn’t exist in reality.
Wait a second… Bush was a conspiracy theorist who believed in the New World Order???
Oh, that’s right… if the theatrical production of information is controlled by a Bohemian Grove (inc.) type then it’s not a “conspiracy theory.” But if it is controlled in main streams of media (inc.) or “official sources just trickled this information down on me” … then apparently, it is a conspiracy theory.
The truth on any issue aside, that’s all it really seems to amounts to in general.
– 11% of voters believe the US government allowed 9/11 to happen, 78% do not agree
Vs. the 51% for JFK… that’s interesting. Maybe in another fifty or so years, that number will rise to 51% on 9/11 “conspiracy theories” too.* Although… in the case of asking about 9/11, it’s likely that no one will ever get to the point of asking the sheeple, “Do you believe that Israel and Zionist collaborators did 9/11?”
There again, trying to imagine surveys in the future entails that even more people aren’t killed and opinions shifted around by another false flag attack by their own military industrial complex, etc. It depends on the market. E.g., you would probably believe that “militia men” and “anti-Semites” were going around blowing things up if that’s what you were told was happening in what remains of the main streams of media that the masses still watch… even if they were really just trying to arrest some banksters protected by the CIA and others that you probably actually hate too. Meanwhile, back in reality… I’m all for wandering around occupying space and playing with arts and crafts while we wait for more hopium and change. Fun times.
But anyway, in the imaginary world of surveys in the future one would also have to assume that people are still taking surveys about what the majority believes instead of letting the 1% and perhaps 9% of their auxiliaries (or drones) put the majority of the population in Corrections Corporation of America to work as slaves. No surveys necessary. After all, if there were enough TVs in the prisons and JP Morgan provided enough food stamps to be used in the prison shop for the debt slaves paying their debts to “society” and/or people were scared enough… they’d probably actually want to get into the new Caring System (inc.) financed by banksters.
But meanwhile… why are the masses still being surveyed, again? Is it because they run “their” government?
What reporting on polls usually amounts to for the common herd of sheeple…
A satire: “Everyone else doesn’t agree? Oh nooos!!”
There again, the herd instinct is linked to empathy. So there is that.
Louis CK once asked Donald Rumsfeld if Rumsfeld himself is a lizard from outer space. Listen to Rumsfeld’s non-response.