Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Having been an interested observer of US politics and government since the early 1970s, I can readily assert that I would be stunned to find out that our government or elements thereof could be even a tenth as coordinated or a 100th as secretive as some of these conspiracies would have us believe.

These conspiracies are the "best plans" of a government that intervened in a civil war in Southeast Asia but for years refused to bomb or damage the enemy's primary industrial/transpo center; of an administration that staged a break-in of the opposing political party's local headquarters using 3rd-tier criminals....to defeat an opponent who was already so marginalized that he would go on to win only 17 of the 538 electoral votes; or a subsequent administration that fomented rebellion in Iran and then were surprised that, after 40 years of working with the Shah, many Iranians were less than happy with the USA and unwilling to love us for our recent change of heart....

Examples can continue ad nauseum, but I think you take my point.
That is pretty much my view of conspiracy theories too. Governments just seem too stupid to actually be able to pull it off.

But then, we could always blame the Illuminati..