I am not paranoid. Really, I'm not.
But if you wanted to elect Hussein, the best way is to make Bush, and by party association, McCain look bad.
First you torch the economy by driving up the price of oil.
When the economy starts to tank who gets hit first? Those on the margins. Those with the subprime loans....which about four months ago it was announced that problem was solved. But now the defaults really mount and Fannie Mae and Mac claim they are failing.
With the crisis comes demands for bailouts.... a bill is introduced and is then not passed in the House. Even though 95 Demos don't vote for it, the Repubs are blamed by the press... The market plunges to its biggest ever one day point loss and then goes up and down as a new bill is written.... and with the market up 288 points when the House passes it, it falls 445 points to close at 157...
Chums, something isn't right here.
I am known as Poker Player on some sites and have played a few hands in my day. And if I was in a game with so many odd things happening I would immediately know the game was crooked and leave.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there's someone out to get you.
ReplyDeleteStudy of conspiracism
In 1936 American commentator H. L. Mencken wrote:
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.[21]
Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.
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Epistemic bias
It is possible that certain basic human epistemic biases are projected onto the material under scrutiny. According to one study humans apply a 'rule of thumb' by which we expect a significant event to have a significant cause.[25] The study offered subjects four versions of events, in which a foreign president was (a) successfully assassinated, (b) wounded but survived, (c) survived with wounds but died of a heart attack at a later date, and (d) was unharmed. Subjects were significantly more likely to suspect conspiracy in the case of the 'major events' — in which the president died — than in the other cases, despite all other evidence available to them being equal.
Another epistemic 'rule of thumb' that can be misapplied to a mystery involving other humans is cui bono? (who stands to gain?). This sensitivity to the hidden motives of other people may be an evolved and universal feature of human consciousness.
Clinical psychology
For relatively rare individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or more of several well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.
If you'll keep you're mouth shut(or only post about it here, which amounts to the same thing) it's all because of the Bitbergers working hand in glove with the Trilateral Commission, along with the help of Col. Mustard in the library with a knife.
You heard it hear first.