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Demonizing America’s silent conservative majority from Canada



On May Day, the international holiday of communists, the Washington Post editorial used Jonathan Kay’s book, “Among the Truthers: A Journey through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground,” to further besmirch and demonize the silent conservative majority of America. The left’s constant ideological wars against the taxpaying middle class and the job creators continue.

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Jonathan Kay, the managing editor of Canada’s National Post, claims that he has interviewed hundreds of conspiracy theorists in the past three years. He theorizes that they have a “twisted relationship with reality” and explains it through the taxonomy of “true fake believers.” The first group is the “apocalyptic doomsayers,” those who fantasize about good vs. evil. The most prominent person Kay picks to exemplify this category is Joseph Farah and his popular WorldNet Daily website as an example. The entire monolithic readership, in Kay’s opinion, “thinks conservative American values must battle an Islamist, Afrocentric, socialist president bent on destroying the country.” I am looking at the economic destruction around me, the loss of homes, high inflation, high unemployment, high gas prices, schizophrenic foreign policies, excessive adulation of Islam, constant apologies to the world, endless cash for United Nations third world dictatorship, the war in Libya, Yemen, moratoriums on oil drilling, wasteful spending, TARP, stimulus 1, stimulus 2, confiscation of GM and Chrysler bondholder assets and redistribution to the unions, bailouts for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, school loan Fed takeover, debasing the dollar, cash for clunkers, cash for caulkers, driving up the price of coal on purpose, czars, global warming hoax, and I wonder, is this destruction on purpose or accidental due to incompetence? It is not that our national debt looms larger than it has ever been in the entire U.S. history; it is that we are “apocalyptic doomsayers.” “Failed Historians” is the second group of the American “fringe,” exemplified in Kay’s opinion by the extreme example of the Holocaust Denier fascinated by Nazism. I recall Tea Party groups were called Nazis ad nauseam by various members of the current administration with no apology or condemnation for hate speech. I also recall the “progressives” branding President Bush and his administration Nazis for eight years straight. Many violent student protests burned Bush’s Nazi-like effigy, causing property damage in the process, with no commentary from the state-controlled media about the appropriateness of such acts, and maintenance of respect and decorum. Kay’s third category of conspiracy theorists is the “Mentally Unbalanced.” I do not know how many mentally ill he has interviewed or what qualifies him as a psychiatrist and diagnostician. It is an offensive attempt to categorize and malign the conservative movement as composed of mentally ill just because it disagrees with the ideology of the left. It is reminiscent of the Soviet era when dissenters were taken to mental hospitals and treated in large wards with hard-core drugs in order to change their anti-communistic behavior and ultimately turn them into pliant drones who could no longer think for themselves. The fourth category of the “paranoid fringe” is the “Midlife Crisis Case.” Apparently Kay met many conspiracy theorists who were fat 40-50 year old men; they joined the ranks because of failed lives and disappointing relationships. This is interesting because I did see thousands and thousands of families and couples at rallies that were unhappy with the government spending, not with their families or unfulfilled careers. They were law-abiding citizens who believed in God, loved their country deeply, and waved American flags. I also saw the far-left Code Pink in various states of undress, wearing loony, ridiculous costumes, supporting causes that were and are always opposite of American mainstream values. Finally, yet importantly are the “Fakers.” Kay theorizes that Donald Trump is the ultimate “birther” and “faker” who used his platform to galvanize the “Republican Party’s Obama-phobic base,” and to boost his empire holdings while increasing the ratings for the “Apprentice.” His explanation for Donald’s fakery is the statement made by Washington Post that Trump has donated more money to Democrats than to Republicans. This begs the question, how are the rest of conservatives “fakers?” I guess this category must be composed of one “faker,” Donald Trump. 
Jonathan Kay concludes that not all theorists are “unhinged, bug-eyed loners.” Some Americans who come in “respectable guises” still do not believe that President Obama was born in the U.S.A. although he released his long-form birth certificate. Respectable citizens comprise the rest of the conspiracy theorists. Even Americans with money are not sheltered from a “twisted relationship with reality,” says Jonathan Kay. It seems to me that Mr. Kay has a distorted take on reality.


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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ileana Writes is a freelance writer, author, radio commentator, and speaker. Her books, “Echoes of Communism”, “Liberty on Life Support” and “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy,” “Communism 2.0: 25 Years Later” are available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.


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