At this point after all of these investigations, the release of the documents, the passage of time, it seems obvious (even more now than before) that most of these conspiracy activists have an agenda where they use the assassination to express their grievances with some element of the government. It's not really about the assassination; it's about the assassination as a symbol of something deeper and darker. It's been that way for awhile, probably from the very beginning, but it's more explicit (and desperate) now.
On the conspiracy Left, it's the CIA and the Cold War policies, policies they think were illegitimate and immoral (some were but not all). Good lord, it never ends with them. And they see Oswald, as a fellow leftist, as a victim of this McCarthyite hysteria.
On the Right, it's the "Deep State" that tried to get Trump but got JFK. They really don't go after the Cold War policies since they are anti-communists and think they were largely justified. Why the MAGA conspiracy Right thinks they went after JFK is a puzzle to me. JFK as Trump? Trump as JFK? Really?
Where Michael Griffith fits in to this is a mystery. He seems to be a conspiracy hobbyist that is just doing this for...well I don't know. He has nearly everything faked but insists it was 20 to 30 people. He has disinformation agents right now manipulating opinion. And the news media being used to promote the lone assassin theory. It's all Oliver Stone/Jim Garrison type thinking but he's not a leftist. So again, I'm lost as to where he is coming from.
Steve you obviously have spent some time thinking about this. I have noticed it really does not matter what the subject, everyone no matter the age wants to believe in a conspiracy of some kind. Religion is no different than politics is no different than business. Some are basically harmless, but some bring the worst out in people.
A few decades ago, there was a group here called the Freeman. It was a real study in the psychology of believing in conspiracies. Brothers, sisters, cousins, etc were on opposite sides of the issue. Totally in line with your post it was grievances with the government that fueled the fight. Interesting was in the western part of the state the Freeman were railing against the Forest Service, the center of the state was Fish and Game, and in the Eastern part of the state it was against the Bureau of Land Management. Basically, whatever government agency had a large presence in the area, there was a group of fanatics opposed to them. It was hard to distinguish between the left and the right in these groups.
I don’t understand Michael either. Most of it is off the charts. My mother-in-law had the church and the Illuminati to expound on, Michael has the fragment trails. There is no doubt the conspiracy hook is buried deep in him. I can think of no one on this site that ever-changed course in either way. I have not seen a conspiracy theory yet that cannot be unraveled by common sense. Actually, I think the only people who even care about the assassination is the die hards on this site, and becoming fewer all the time. I know my children could care less.
