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This kind of is to be expected now. I've been paying attention to far right media since you had get newsletters mailed to you and you could buy hour long videos on VHS through the mail.
There's plenty of CTs embraced by the left, but this will lead back to Epoch Times. The rise of thought leaders who get their audience to read their newspapers through an End Times lens doubtless predated Late Great Planet Earth in the 70s, it set the tone for the next 50 years. As more Christians, especially evangelical and fundamentalist ones who tended to be politically conservative, every event of consequence was seen as a sign.
Jack Van Impe rise to prominence in 80s and the 90s they was a hey day of militias, writers like Texe Marrs and shows like The Prophecy Club. All deeply streeped in conspiratorial thinking and looking to a future battle against a demonic world government.
Y2K never happening and 9/11 briefly took the air out of the conspiracists, but then came Alex Jones who almost 20 years later would be in communication with Presidential advisers on J6. This time frame coincides with the publication of the Left Behind Series starting in 1995.
By 2008 a large portion of right leaning folks embraced Obama birth conspiracy theories many of which still fester to this day. 2016 and Hilary wraps nicely back to the early 1990s and the Clinton Chronicles/Clinton Body Count which, of course, still is being pushed to this day.
Finally there was the embrace of Q, mostly by right leaning individuals, and anti-vax/plandemic which probably was majority right leaning.
All of this is a 50 year interconnected web of political CTs and eschatology that has informed many conservative weltanschauungs so it's no wonder that Epoch Times and Post Millennial should be enbraced by them. It's who they are.
There's plenty of CTs embraced by the left, but this will lead back to Epoch Times. The rise of thought leaders who get their audience to read their newspapers through an End Times lens doubtless predated Late Great Planet Earth in the 70s, it set the tone for the next 50 years. As more Christians, especially evangelical and fundamentalist ones who tended to be politically conservative, every event of consequence was seen as a sign.
Jack Van Impe rise to prominence in 80s and the 90s they was a hey day of militias, writers like Texe Marrs and shows like The Prophecy Club. All deeply streeped in conspiratorial thinking and looking to a future battle against a demonic world government.
Y2K never happening and 9/11 briefly took the air out of the conspiracists, but then came Alex Jones who almost 20 years later would be in communication with Presidential advisers on J6. This time frame coincides with the publication of the Left Behind Series starting in 1995.
By 2008 a large portion of right leaning folks embraced Obama birth conspiracy theories many of which still fester to this day. 2016 and Hilary wraps nicely back to the early 1990s and the Clinton Chronicles/Clinton Body Count which, of course, still is being pushed to this day.
Finally there was the embrace of Q, mostly by right leaning individuals, and anti-vax/plandemic which probably was majority right leaning.
All of this is a 50 year interconnected web of political CTs and eschatology that has informed many conservative weltanschauungs so it's no wonder that Epoch Times and Post Millennial should be enbraced by them. It's who they are.
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