America Was Created As a Conspiracy Theory
Why Our Brains Shut and Turn Off When the Term's Uttered
{Though this is not an endorsement of all things Lionel, I do have to give him kudos for making this point, which is one that I, myself, have been using on for years against "conspiracy theory" naysayers}
main point @13-14min
CONTEXT:
The US Declaration of Independence, considered the corner stone of the American nation and one of the most important historical documents of all time, signed in Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, is a virtual celebration of conspiracy theory.
“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security…”
This is followed by a laundry list of misdeeds and abuses committed by the British monarch, concluded with the insistence that these are not isolated complaints about disparate events but rather the implacable and systematic operations of a concerted plot – a conspiracy.
“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States.”
The founding ideology of the United States of America was a Grand Conspiracy to reduce We the People to abject slavery.