Why do people think liberals believe 9/11 conspiracies?

Question

The overwhelming majority - probably 99.999999 - of liberals do not believe stupid conspiracy theories, like 9/11 was orchestrated by Bush, etc. And not all the lunatics who believe it are liberals. Why are conservatives so desperately confused about what liberals believe in general? If they actually knew, would they sound less silly all the time?

P.S. I meant to write "99.999999 percent."

Answer 1

lunacy is believing propaganda spewed out by high powered people with agendas...

Remember... questioning your government's actions is not unpatriotic.....

People, wake up!!!!

Answer 2

Truth is we are split 50/50 as a country on weather we belive George Bush assisted the 9/11 attacks. But most people agree he is defantly not telling us the whole truth and more investigation is needed. (by people not appointed by this administration)




According to Zogby.com (#1 polling site in USA)

Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. Leaders Had
Foreknowledge of Impending 9/11 Attacks and
"Consciously Failed" To Act

66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions
by Congress or New York's Attorney General.


According to the new New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks:

"Do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?

Telling the truth 16%

Hiding something 53%

Mostly lying 28%

Not sure 3%"

The 84% figure mirrors other recent polls on the same issue. A Canadian Poll put the figure at 85%. A CNN poll had the figure at 89%. Over 80% supported the stance of Charlie Sheen when he went public with his opinions on 9/11 as an inside job.

Answer 3

The one question that always stops the "9-11 truth" nay sayers dead in their tracks!

Where the HELL is the proof that PNAC's call for a 'catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor' was only an unbelievably astounding and timely coincidence rather than a statement that should have raised reasonable suspicion?

The ball now must be thrown to the nay sayers, the folks in blinders who believe everything they are told by the WH and its media mouthpieces. They must be held accountable for their unfounded beliefs by challenging them for convincing proof that we are wrong. There is no room here for even a fraction of the challenges that should be made. Still, we have to start somewhere, so let’s at least call for responses from the politically blinded to what follows:

In the late 1990's members of the Project for a New American Century wrote a treatise in which they foresaw a strategic "transformation" of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force of global domination that would require a huge increase in defense spending. "The process of transformation," the plan said, "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor." The members of this group, known as PNAC, were appointed to many high level positions in the new Bush administration. Only months after they came to power, the United States experienced a new Pearl Harbor. That has never been publicized or explained as anything other than mere coincidence.

Do not confuse "conspiracy theories" with "reasonable suspicion." Theories are simply possibilities based on intellectual conclusions. Suspicion is based on specific events and evidence. For example you can not conduct a courtroom trial based on theory, you can however, conduct one based on evidence. I provide evidence. Nothing on my site is theory. If you can site specific falsehoods I will gladly correct them.

Answer 4

Because every single liberal I discussed 9/11 with believes this to be true (without any proof, mind you). You may be the one exception. That "99.999999" % estimate of yours is not even close.

Trust me. Any legitimate conservative understands liberalism more than liberals understand conservatism and their own liberalism. We are not desperately confused.

I am pleased to read that you're not into unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, but your assertion about "desperately confused" conservatives is too much of a blanket statement. And in general, liberals sound way more silly than conservatives in expressing their political opinions. You've been to anti-war protests; right? Then you'll see what I mean.

Answer 5

I don't get a sense of there being any conservative 9/11 'truthers.' Some, even many, of them may be radical in ways that defy the simple 'liberal' label, but that's about as far as I'd go in agreeing that not /all/ the believers are liberals.

The 9/11 conspiracy theorists do tend to back the typical liberal or anti-Bush agenda. They want the US out of Iraq, they want Bush out of office. They may also want protection from orbital mind control lasers or the arrest of the gunman on the grassy knoll, but that doesn't stop them from lending thier support to the liberal side of the debate on Iraq, the 'War on Terror,' the evils of George Dubya, and so forth...

So I think getting thier strident message mixed up with the equally strident but less certifiably insane messages of the broader left is understandable.

Answer 6

i have heard some exciting, some loopy, and some only trouble-free extraordinary conspiracy theories earlier yet.... lately i have keep listening to this conspiracy idea about President Bush that he became in the back of the 9/eleven attacks so as that he would have an excuse to invade Afganistan. So my question is.... does everybody truthfully have self assurance this C+ college student, who has situation announcing each fifth be conscious, someway engineered the crime of the century, and also to that were given a minimum of 10-20 different well matched conservative religious republicans human beings to pass alongside with it , killing 3,000+ human beings, fee his own united states of america 1000's of Billions, all so he would have an excuse to invade a united states of america that has actual no longer some thing (no longer even oil), yet airborne dirt and dirt and a collection of undesirable muslims? (Afganistan) . and also to above, he did it so nicely that the in problem-free words data of that's a collection of VERY shaky, usually shown pretend coincidences? Now extremely, does this make any sense what-so-ever? I believe you, of course, and that i'm a " Liberal"

Answer 7

Its a matter of accepting something as world changing ans the declared war on terror or not.
The conspiracies evolved out of the need for an explanation for very important life changing events.
Things were left out of the 9/11 commission report. Why?
Then other questions follow.

Pearl Harbor to this day remains a conspiracy theory.

Answer 8

why do you call people who question illogical events, lunatics? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

secondly, I am not a liberal and I have many questions. What we have been told cannot possibly have happened in that way. We as humans. Not republicans, not democrats, not black, not white not Muslim or Christian or Jewish or any other peoples. We as humans need to see things beyond what we are told. Governments, throughout history have used it's own population for their political gain. It should be no surprise to people that we once again have become small pawns on the master chessboard. I absolutely agree with what Rosey has been saying in her posts. People need to wake up and stop having the Media and government dictate what is true or not. We as sovereign individuals need to think for ourselves and reclaim that which we have lost throughout centuries of government crap.

Answer 9

We do not believe that (at least I do not).

I think where some of this comes from is

A) It seems that most 911 conspiracy theorists are liberal

B) The way that either side tries to argue in absolutes like "All" "Always" and "Never"

Members from both sides are guilty of B. As far as for A I said it "seems" meaning I could be wrong and could not find any refernce to support it.

Answer 10

It all comes down to the media and the two party system. Both the right wing and the left wing media portray the other as "extreme," so that is how the parties get labeled.

Sadly, these labels do not represent Americans very well, and only causes a greater gap between the two sides.

Answer 11

For extreme conservatives, those who view the political world as us versus them, it would be easy to group all those you disagree with into the liberal category. I don't think that liberals are any more likely to be conspiracy theorists than conservatives, it is just convenient for those who want a black and white world to not make a distinction between liberal and conspiracy theorist.