Conspiracy Isn't Fun Anymore, Pt. 2

You know what's funny? When I was a teen, I had a goofy hobby of following and distorting conspiracy theories, faux cryptozoology (Nessie, baby!), Bavarian Illiuminati claims ,UFOology, Masons,Templars, JFK, etc..you know the type- but this was before the internet and besides, it was really just stuff to giggle about with chums- not to be taken seriously.
I never really believed that the Illuminati assassinated George Washington and replaced him with Adam Weishaupt or anything like that.

Then, in the mid-late 1980's the whole sordid Iran/ Contra affair and our support of murderous death squads and narco-traffickers in Central America (-largely under the watch of CURRENT Bushco cronies, John Negroponte being a prime example- ) came to light. It was all laid out in no uncertain terms- a young Senator named John Kerry connected a lot of the dots. Wow- we had a whole secret gov't that was willing to use the lives of American citizens and soldiers as bargaining tools in their negotiations with America's enemies? Importing cocaine into the USA, dealing poison gas to Saddam, even raping nuns in Honduras- there were some seriously amoral bastards lurking behind the curtains.

Intense, man. Wow.

They were selling cocaine in order to raise money , which was laundered in places like Dubai and Saudi Arabia and used to buy weapons for the enemies of our enemies, who are most certainly not our friends?
Dude.
Like, heavy, ya know.

Damn. After Viet Nam and Watergate, you'd think the people would've risen up and thrown out the whole rotten "system".

Guess what happened?

Not much.
The Clash recorded Sandinista, which was OK.

Oliver North got a TV show, which sucked.

Bush Sr., one of the ringleaders in what was-at that point in time- the most egregious betrayal of America as a Nation,ever, was actually elected President, which is STILL a disaster.
The public yawned.

War was declared on the drugs that the CIA introduced to the American street.

The USSR imploded and Reagan was beatified for it, although the same thing would've happened in Russia if Carter (or anyone else) was in office at that time. In hindsight, the Cold War and it's looming but improbable spectre of nuclear annihilation was keeping us safe in a way that we couldn't have known at that time.

Some years go by and there's another Presidential Election. Hey- one of the guys is the same John Kerry who helped expose the Iran/Contra affair! Cool! That guy had balls. He oughta be able to mop the floor with his opponent.

But it's not the same Kerry. It's some other guy who just looks like him and the imposter seems intent on being anything but President of the United States. Almost everything said about him is false, distorted or misleading, but his campaign doesn't bother to refute any of it. I started wondering if Karl Rove had pictures of Kerry pissing on the Viet Nam War memorial or some other means of extortion-what else could explain such an impotent campaign? It's impossible to say. God knows the man made plenty of enemies in both parties with all that "follow the money" talk.

One thing stands out as true however- and it hit me as I watched one of the 'debates'.
Both candidates were members of the same secret society at the same college.
Sounds odd...

I was of the notion that most collegiate 'secret societies' were just a way for the privileged to indulge their latent homoerotic whims, yet here they were -two of them- arguing about who should be the Boss of America and they both were members of the same weird guys-only club?
Coincidence?

Geez, I thought. Can you vote for the guy who isn't a member of Skull & Bones?
And also isn't Ralph Nader?

Well, no. You can't.

At that moment I understood. All those elaborate and nonsensical fantasy conspiracies of my youth were nothing in comparision to what was really happening.
If the biggest secret our gov't had was the capture of an alien spacecraft at Roswell , well, that would be abso-fucking-lutely comforting in comparision to the real truth.

Whatever that is.