I just watched one of the greatest hoaxes or conspiracies of the twentieth century. It was a PBS documentary on the Lunar Landing. Doesn’t everybody know it was all done in a warehouse in Area 57? That’s another hoax where the Air Force says they don’t have any aliens in the freezers.

The biggest conspiracy is that FDR not only knew the Japanese would attack our base at Pearl Harbor, he knew weeks in advance. He wanted us in the war so we could fight with England so he got tough with sanctions against Japan.

Of course, the 1962 conspiracy theories were the Grassy Knoll and Cuba’s training of Oswald. The biggest ones for this century is Obama wasn’t born in America and he is a Muslim. Many hoaxes and conspiracies are put out by people who want to gain publicity for themselves or their cause.

Perhaps the greatest believer of hoaxes and promoter of his own hoaxes and conspiracy theories is Donald Trump. He still believes in the ones about Obama and has spawned hundreds of other hoaxes which his adherents believe and pass along. The media tries to show the hoaxes and conspiracies to just be more lies but Trump is leading a crusade to destroy honest media and promote dishonest media. Common sense should cause people to question some of his most outlandish statements but “The Big Lie” strategy seems to be working here as well as it did in Nazi Germany.

Oh yes, let’s not forget the Russians, Chinese, and other dominating the internet with their own strategies to divide and disrupt our country. Why are so many so gullible? P.T. Barnum couldn’t come up with what Americans believe today.