Kelly Rebecca Nichols5/7/2021
A Pew Research Center survey conducted from March 10-16, 2020, backs this up: nearly 30 of Americans believe the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was created in a lab.In Jones, however, Kirk and his co-writer Michael Wiser have a personification of the insidious nature of channeling fringe belief into political weaponry.
Mourning families appearing on camera to talk about their horrific loss were branded crisis actors by Jones, and his fans took that poisoned ball and ran with it. Kelly Rebecca Nichols Free The ChildOne man believed in the conspiracy theory that became known as Pizzagate so completely that he drove to the restaurant with an automatic weapon, intending to free the child captives that never in existed held in a basement that wasnt there. Stone was convicted in former special counsel Bob Muellers investigation for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. From there it takes a brief look at Jones origins in Austin, Texas, where he was considered in the 1990s to be a part of the local color just a hometown nutbar that nobody really took seriously, as Salons politics reporter Amanda Marcotte explained in a 2016 story published days before Trump was elected president. Despite remaining in danger to this day he appears in the hour, but hidden in shadow. We are living with the effects of his baseless rants because of Jones outsized influence, and Fox News hosts such as Steve Doocy or Trump are repeating them to cable audiences or on the White House lawn. If youve been afraid to go to the grocery store for fear of encountering some defiantly unmasked mouth-breather lording over the produce section, rest assured that Jones has a hand in promoting that persons behavior. Conspiracy theory is the pandemic that made the COVID-19 pandemic possible. Jones fabrications first found purchase with far right members the Congress and then the president himself, and for similar reasons. All of them are tapping into white male rage, general insecurities concerning their place in an evolving economy and old-fashioned racism and xenophobia. Jones is doing it to make money; politicians are doing it to stay in office and consolidate power. Natural disasters, mass shootings or acts of domestic terrorism are explained as false flag operations. Science is no longer trustworthy, and yet Jones has enough people believing in what he tells him that some will purchase supplements and toothpaste that he claims kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range. The fact that the worst of society is now front and center in the battle for our democracy makes United States of Conspiracy necessary and utterly sobering election season viewing. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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