The Real Barack Obama was Kidnapped by George Soros and Replaced by an Actor Who Can’t Remember His Lines and Needs a Teleprompter

I’ve had it with conspiracy theories and their proponents. I could go down the list from the brand new “9/11 was an inside job” wing-nuts to those late-sixties “we never landed on the moon” kooks, but what’s the point? No matter how much evidence you show them or how many holes you shoot in their delusions, they cling to their beliefs. Why? Because they want to believe! They have some emotional attachment to being in on “the truth.” It becomes a cult for the believer.

The people who start these wacky ideas cherry pick facts, statistics, and other information to suit their theory. If you present any facts or ideas which contradict the theory you are either too dense to see the obvious or maybe you are one of “them.”

The problem with most conspiracy theories is the incredible number of people who would have to be in on at least part of the plot in order to make it work.  I don’t want to rile up too many folks who are holding onto a recent theory, so let’s look at one that has been fairly well disproved. Even as I type that line, I can see apoplectic comments from those who still think we didn’t land on the moon. Look at what it would take to pull off the “we never went to the moon” theory.  Beside the three astronauts and hundreds of NASA technical personal, there would have to be camera people, set dressers, broadcast personal, and who knows how many other to put off a round the clock production for eight days. Keep in mind they would have had to repeat this process every time we did an Apollo mission.  (more…)