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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"

The Fifth Column

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What Is a Conspiracy?

"The entire thing of creating the narrative of the JFK assassination is political," he says. "When you had a time in America where there was... Communication wasn't as fast as vigorous as democratic, everybody was contributing to it" The idea that people who fail don't get conspiracy theories is kind of funny because they never find out about them unless they fail. But only when they're successful do you find that there's an actual conspiracy behind things, which is hilarious.

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