Fear in the Tides of Change.

I'm not going to spend too much time on this because I honestly don't think it's worth putting too much effort into.

Today I read in the Star Tribune that a group is filing a law suit to try and block President-Elect  Obama from becoming the nations 44th president of the United States. The reason? This group claims that he is not even a natural born citizen, thus it would be unconstitutional for him to even become president. 

However just a few strokes on a keyboard, a few button clicks, and here you all go.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp

In fact here's his birth certificate.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg

I don't know how to make them a link(I'm computer illiterate), but you can copy and paste.

Now days within conservative circles, many conspiracy theories are being brought up stating that someone or group, somewhere, is trying to undermine American values, destroy all religion, and ultimately set up a one world government in order to usher in Satan's domination of what God created. Somehow barring the teaching of evolution and making it illegal to even be gay is going stop this. Therefore, we must all become staunch Republicans and everything is going to be fixed, the anti-christ is not going to rise to power, and the entire world will follow our example or else we will bomb them back to the stone age.

This isn't anything new. Well the current action may be, but the idea behind it isn't new. Plain and simple, a group(in this case the religious right) is losing their power base. This leads to an inevitable question: Why? Why is 'our' group losing it's grip? Rather then face the light and see that our reality is subject to social and economic changes, it is much easier to blame someone else. Thus a conspiracy theory is born. Someone is doing something, somewhere, trying to undermine our values. We therefore must stand our group  and expose those who are responsible for our demise.

To be honest, I have no idea HOW conspiracy theories start (It would be amazing to meet the guy who came up with the idea for the Illuminati), but I do know why. Simply put, it's fear of the unknown. When something you've worked so hard to establish is suddenly obsolete, it's pretty easy to scapegoat someone else. 

I can understand. Really, it does feel like the foundations of the world are breaking. Let me assure you that they aren't. Everything is going to be fine. And let me tell ya, if you actually listen to those theories the femi-nazis are going to get us.