Bwaygurl2 said: "Conspiracy theory lunacy has left the fringes and has taken over every aspect of American life."
Exactly, perfectly put.
There will always be conspiracy theorists who think their fact-free suspicions are signs of intelligence when they are actually signs of the opposite--so thats not new. But what IS new is this idea that if you make up some half-baked, proof-free theory, its OK because you're "just asking some questions"--about Obama's birth certificate, about vaccines, about The Jews, about The Moon Landing, about a matinee of Sunset...
the root is the same: an allergy to, or disregard for, facts.