We All Believe Conspiracy Theories

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Conspiracy Theories are part of the foundation of the United States. Our first strong third party, the Anti-Masonic party, had its roots in the belief in a conspiracy theory. Years later the John Birch society shaped American politics.

Things feel different now. Lies are doing something to the United States that no foreign enemy has been able to achieve: Shredding it.

The bizarre QAnon, imaginary purple elephant and, far more dangerous, the big lie of a stolen election.

It’s time to talk about our gaslit nation and what this conspiratorial bullshit means going forward.

Joining us to do just that is Joseph Uscinski. He’s professor of political science at the University of Miami. He’s the coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories (Oxford, 2014) and editor of Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them (Oxford, 2018). And we’re lucky to have him.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
0:05.1	It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. People live in a world with their own making.
0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm Matthew Gault. Today we're going to
0:50.6	Hello and I'm Matthew Gault. Today we're going to talk about conspiracy theories
0:55.0	conspiracy theories are part of the foundation of the United States. Our first strong third party, the Anti-Masonic Party, had its roots in the belief in a conspiracy theory.
1:02.0	Years later, the John Birch Society shaped American politics, but things
1:07.5	feel very different now. Lies are doing something to the United States that no foreign enemy has been able to achieve.
1:16.0	Shredding it.
1:17.6	The bizarre Q-Anon imaginary purple elephant and far more dangerous, the big lie of the stolen election.
1:25.0	It's time to talk about our gazlet nation and what this conspiratorial bullshit means going forward.
1:32.0	Joining us to do just that is burship means going forward.
1:33.0	Joining us to do just that is Joseph Jushinsky.
1:36.0	He is a professor of political science at the University of Miami.
1:40.0	He's the co-author of American Conspiracy Theories, came out in 2014, and editor of Conspiracy
1:47.9	Theories and the people who believe them, which was from 2018, and we're very lucky to have him.
1:54.4	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:56.6	Thank you for having me.
1:58.8	Can we start with something really basic?
2:02.0	What is wrong with this country?
2:05.0	Why are so many people so eager to believe things that are provably untrue?
2:11.0	That doesn't feel like a basic question to me.
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