I’m no psychologist, but I’m guessing that this sort of thing is caused by the fact that a lot of my fellow white people feel threatened and are just sure that now that there’s a black President, the country they think they used to run is out to get them:
A gathering of western Arizona residents, convinced they’re being contaminated by chemicals spewed by overflying aircraft, pressed repeatedly but futilely for a state investigation at a meeting convened by state Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City.
Although Ward billed Wednesday’s meeting in Kingman as an exchange about environmental quality in her legislative district, the audience was focused on so-called “chemtrails” and their effect on plant and human life.
Ward, by the way, is challenging John McCain in the Arizona Republican primary, so she’s eager to prove that she’s a bona fide crazy.
Apparently, the thinking is that the U.S. government is spraying the West with chemicals in order to–in order to…well, that’s not clear, but the government is up to no good. The scientists say it’s just the vapor trails from overflying jets, but what do scientists know, and anyway, they’re part of the conspiracy. Now, as paranoid fantasies go, this one doesn’t hold a candle to the one dreamed up by the good folks in Texas, who are convinced the U.S. government wants to invade Texas, while, in truth, Obama would probably welcome the chance to restore the Republic of Texas, thereby vastly improving the remaining 49. Nonetheless, it’s emblematic of what’s going on out there in the fevered minds of the threatened. The strange thing is that there are people out to get them, and they’re doing it in plain sight, yet these very same folks don’t feel threatened at all. Apparently, the thought of a government of the Koch Brothers, by the Koch Brothers, and for the Koch Brothers sits gentle on their minds.
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