The Hardest Lesson: People Want To Be Lied To And Will Consider Hell Heaven, And Heaven Hell

Dear F,

Thanks for your email.

The light of reason might change a few votes.

But in the current political milieu Trumpistas WANT to be lied to and they will discard as "fake news" ANY truth that contradicts their faith-based need to be angry and accusatory.

Not only is conspiratorial thinking "over the top," the proliferation of different conspiracy theories relating to the same topic is so multifarious that it is a wonder conspiracists don't marvel that they managed to choose the one turd in the sewer than happened to be true.

It makes more sense to believe that Christianity was an ancient Jewish plot to dominate Europe than to believe 99% of contemporary conspiracy theories. (Quick! Name one conspiracy theory in the history of the humankind that came to be accepted in a way that changed the course of history as much as penicillin or mosquito netting. It's all "sound and fury" designed to fortify fragile, faith-based egos.)

That said, the "Siamese" conspiracy that has been constant for over a hundred years -- and is virtually ignored by dyed-in-the-wool conspiracists -- is that Cowboy Capitalism is a quintessentially corrupting "institution" and the Military-Industrial Complex is in bed with Cowboy Capitalism for the purpose of conducting continual war profiteering (a circumstance that now prevails in the Middle East).

The goal is to make money off the perpetual motion machine of incessant destruction.

"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"

(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-smedley-butler-do-wars.html

Why We Love Violence And Pump It Even Though It Rarely Works And Is Typically Counterproductive
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-we-love-violence-pump-it-even.html

"We Like War"

Video

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/george-carlin-we-like-war-because-were.html

"Why We Fight," Excellent Documentary With Ike's "Military-Industrial Complex" As Springboard

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/why-we-fight-excellent-documentary-with.html

Scare The Sheep 

And They Will Applaud Military-Industrial Profiteering

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/scare-sheep-and-they-will-cheer.html

American "Patriotism": Why So Many Americans Are Fundamentally Violent And Paranoid

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/american-patriotism-why-so-many.html

Republican Lawmaker From Nevada Sends Christmas Card Featuring Fully Armed Family

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/republican-lawmaker-from-nevada-sends.html

The Age-Old Normalization Of Warfare Through Stupidity, Ego And Religion

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-age-old-normalization-of-warfare.html

The Mistaken Concept That Reducing Cultures To Rubble Results In Peace

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-mistaken-concept-that-reducing.html

Punishment Rarely Reforms But Instead Tends To Reinforce Wrongdoing

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/punishment-rarely-reforms-but-instead.html

Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/best-pax-posts-on-punishment-and.html

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/conservative-christians-delight-in_9.html

America's Passion For Punishment And Torture
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html

Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love And Forgiveness, Or Retribution And Punishment

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/christians-and-christians-must-choose.html

CONSPIRACY - CONSPIRACISM

Compendium Of Pax Posts: Persuading A Loved One That His Conspiracism Is Mostly Crazy

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/compendium-of-pax-posts-trying-to.html

My Friends' Devoted Conspiracism Is As Crazy As Trump's Birtherism. What To Do With Lunacy?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-friends-devoted-conspiracism-is-as.html

Harvey/Irma Hurricane Conspiracy Reveals The Idiocy Of Most Conspiracism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/harvey-and-irma-hurricane-conspiracy.html

Ongoing Correspondence With A Conspiracist Friend Re: The "Staged" Slaughter At Sandy Hook

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/ongoing-correspondence-with.html

"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html

"Who Killed Sister Cathy?" Tom Nugent

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/who-killed-sister-cathy-tom-nugent.html

How Rochester, New York Detective Fantigrossi "Leaned On Me" To Identify The Wrong Man

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-rochester-new-york-detective.html

The Thinking Housewife's Conspiracism: Exploring The Falsehood

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-thinking-housewifes-conspiracism.html

Discussion With 9/11 Truther Friend About Epistemology, Belief, Certainty And Purpose

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/05/discussion-with-911-truther-friend.html

The 9/11 Truth Movement: Where Does It Lead?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-911-truth-movement-where-does-it.html

"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html

Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/conspiracy-thinking-death-of-shared.html

"Crisis Acting": A Standard Conspiracist Hoax That Supposedly Reveals Hoaxes (Snopes)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/07/crisis-acting-hoax-that-supposedly.html

The Daily Show Goes To Trump Rally To Hear Conspiracy Theories: They Are Not Disappointed

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-daily-show-goes-to-trump-rally-to.html

"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/more-on-newtown-massacre-professor.html

Trump Resurrects Clinton-Foster Murder Conspiracy

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/trump-resurrects-clinton-foster-murder.html

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:50 PM Frances Vito wrote:

Dear A

Some journalist should embed him/herself in the caravan and talk to not just mothers with children but those "big, strong men" that U.S. women should be afraid of. Televise these scary men.

Hector actually said our women should be afraid of these big strong men. Another way of saying 'rapists'? So it's not just Mexican men. Rapists everywhere  in Latin America coming for our women.

They should also try to find Middle Easteners, gang members, people with small pox and leprosy and expose them. They should be obvious. 

Love

F

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 9:59 AM Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:

Caribou, What do you think? Could you be a useful consultant to the caravan?

Bandaged feet, bleeding hands, violent coughs: The caravan takes its toll Even the strongest migrants are feeling the effects of walking hundreds of miles in harsh conditions. By Michael Miller  •   Read more » Love Dman