Here's a question. I am Facebook friends with 2 people who have friends with beliefs differently than my own (one redneck, one born again Christian), plus one family member who would also be considered conservative Christian. All three of these people in response to recent events, either posted themselves or their friends posted memes or conspiracy theories about George Soros. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed it. It seems freaking transparent/irrational of everything that's going on, that's what's your going to focus on, but perhaps an effective strategy? At least one also said that all Democrats are up to no good/enemy (Soros is evil, he donates to Democrats, all Democrats are evil). Can someone explain the Soros thing. What has he done that's so evil? I asked one of the posters but they didn't respond.
As far as I can tell, he is wealthy and Jewish so he's an effective scapegoat for the far-right.
Personally, I'm still waiting for the paycheck that Breitbart said I received from him for participating in the 2017 Women's March.[/sarcasm]
Yep, its not just the donations tons of people believe that he is sending weekly checks to Antifa, leftist protestors, BLM protestors, anti-Trump folks, Women's March protestors, people pushing the LGBTQ agenda, Climate change, etc. etc.
I know people that are successful business owners and high earning people at big companies that believe it 1000%. Seemingly smart people for the most part. Part of the globalist agenda or something.
The "globalist agenda" has always been code for "Jews controlling everything" in the anti-Semitic conspiracy-theory circles. Not that all anti-globalists know that of course. Or would care if they did. You used to see it in three parenthesis so they could be absolutely sure who each other were: "(((globalist agenda)))".
The Republican party is absolutely rife with conspiracy theorists and racists and racist conspiracy theorists, whether the Republicans in question realize it or not. Conspiracy theories are their bread-and-butter now. They've been told by their propaganda masters that everyone is lying to them about everything for so long that they only are capable of believing in other conspiracy theories that fit their politics.
"All of the world's scientists and experts are lying to you about Global Warming in order to make American Republicans look bad!"
"All of the world's scientists and experts are lying to you about how old the Earth is in a conspiracy to turn you into an Atheist!"
"Obama is really a Kenyan-born Muslim, not a Hawiian Christian!"
"Justice Scalia had a heart attack? No! He was poisoned by murderous Democrats who are trying to steal a Supreme Court seat! We must refuse to do our constitutional duty for a year so that we can maybe keep them from getting away with it!"
"All of the world's journalists and experts are lying to you to make Donald Trump (the best president in the history of the world!) look bad!"
"The evil baby-murdering Democrats are not just for allowing people to have
abortions, now they're murdering babies
after birth and selling their body parts!"
"The Deep State is lying to you about Trump's collusion with Russia. In fact, it wasn't Trump who colluded, it was Hillary.
And George Soros funded it!"
"Vaccines cause autism! And the coronavirus is just a scam caused by 5G towers so that Bill Gates can forcibly inject you with a tracking chip!"
It's disgusting, it's vile, it's evil, and it's absolutely endemic in the Republican party. And it's not on accident, this is what the party propagandists are
constantly pushing. This is
why they love Trump so much that he could "shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it". This is
why they all have for years been attacking journalists and scientists and experts and "the elite" (aka anyone who knows what they're talking about, the way they use the word). You pull someone in with one or two of the conspiracy theories that they're naturally aligned with, and soon enough bam! You have a reliable Republican voter for the rest of their life who has completely lost their grip on reality.