Why are so many MAGATs attracted to the JFKA?

[Tom Graves]

Why does the JFK Assassination attract so many MAGATs?

[Benjamin Cole]

TG--

James DiEugenio and Oliver Stone are not "MAGATs" and people like them are legion on the left-ideology side of the JFKA research base, and they excuse Putin everything.

They excuse North Vietnam everything, Pol Pot everything, Viet Cong everything, Castro everything, Beijing everything, Hamas everything, the IRGC everything, and so on.

On the JFKA left, the bad guys are only Americans and Israelis. Maybe some Brits.

I do not understand the MAGA supporters, or Biden supporters, who tolerate 1 million dead in Ukraine as a passing thought.

Trump has failed the Free World on the Ukraine issue. Biden was squishy.

[Tom Graves]

TG--

James DiEugenio and Oliver Stone are not "MAGATs" and people like them are legion on the left-ideology side of the JFKA research base, and they excuse Putin everything.

They excuse North Vietnam everything, Pol Pot everything, Viet Cong everything, Castro everything, Beijing everything, Hamas everything, the IRGC everything, and so on.

On the JFKA left, the bad guys are only Americans and Israelis. Maybe some Brits.

I do not understand the MAGA supporters, or Biden supporters, who tolerate 1 million dead in Ukraine as a passing thought.

Trump has failed the Free World on the Ukraine issue. Biden was squishy.

Dear "BC,"

What Biden supporters give "one million dead in Ukraine a passing thought"?

Were you hoping Biden would give Ukraine Javelins sooner than he did?

On what issue has Trump not failed the Free World?


-- "TG"

[John Corbett]

I've never seen any correlation between one's political leanings and their views on the JFK assassination. People of all political stripes have come down on both sides of the conspiracy question.

[Tom Graves]

I've never seen any correlation between one's political leanings and their views on the JFK assassination. People of all political stripes have come down on both sides of the conspiracy question.

One never used to see (or be aware of) so many vocal far-right jerks as there seem to be now.

Maybe it's because there are more of them, and it's because they've been so zombified by 60-plus years of KGB disinformation, "active measures," and "inside man / outside man" strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies that they've conflated Peter Dale Scott's and Comrade Oliver Stone's "Deep State" with Steve Bannon's "Administrative State."

[John Corbett]

One never used to see (or be aware of) so many vocal far-right jerks as there seem to be now.

Maybe it's because there are more of them now, and it's because they've been so zombified by 60-plus years of KGB disinformation, "active measures," and "inside man / outside man" strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us and our NATO allies that they've conflated Peter Dale Scott's and Comrade Oliver Stone's "Deep State" with Steve Bannon's "Administrative State."

What we need is funding to find a cure for TDS.

[Lance Payette]

I've never seen any correlation between one's political leanings and their views on the JFK assassination. People of all political stripes have come down on both sides of the conspiracy question.

I certainly did. A few months after I joined the Ed Forum, I was struck by the leftist-leaning sympathies of seemingly all the participants. They all seemed to have a dreamy-eyed near-worship of JFK and utopian notions of what the country would be like today if he and RFK had lived. I actually started a thread on the topic, which clearly hit a nerve because it was met with howls of umbrage. As it turns out, this was before the emergence of The Donald. The emergence of The Donald has fractured everything so badly that intelligible theories are hard to formulate. My observation would be that LNers tend to be conservative while CTers of the CIA-did-it ilk tend to be liberal, but that's probably painting with too broad a brush. Possibly it's no more complex than "Whatever The Donald finds interesting the MAGA folks ipso facto find interesting." Trump is a wacky conspiracy sort of guy; ergo, we are wacky conspiracy sorts of folks. I don't really see an ideological basis, as I saw at the Ed Forum.