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Originally Posted by lzppjb
Alex Jones is fun. I used to watch him on access tv about 14 years ago.
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I watched a lot of his show back then as well. I used to think of him as rat poison, mostly consisting of nutritious food but all of it laced with just enough toxin to ruin it. It frustrated me endlessly to see him taking up so many worthwhile causes but then turning them all into a circus with his antics and wild theories. It doesn't require a cabal of reptilian Bilderbergs to explain the things that bother him. Maybe conspiracy theorists buy into exotic explanations as a way to grapple with their feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness, I don't know. I think we all contain within us the very problems that we see manifest all around us, and this is disturbing enough that most will try to find some external source of problems to blame, such as a devil, the government, corporations, conservatives, liberals, commies, nazis, religious people, atheists ---- as long as we can affix blame to something that we see as being "other," we effectively dodge our shared responsibility for the way things are.
I think I agree with you about term limits, though I've never been 100% committed to the idea because that doesn't really solve the problem of how entrenched interest groups, who could just as easily pay for and control a succession of politicians as they currently manage with limitless terms. It goes back to what you said about the frustration you feel regarding voter ignorance. As long as we're not even interested enough to become informed, we'll be easily manipulated. Not you and me, of course, but "those other people." You know the ones I'm talking about... the Others. Everything is their fault.
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