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" Not to gang up on them too much, but Politico is having a little fun today with the ongoing Jack Welch-inspired crackpottery regarding last week&amp;#039;s job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It plunks the ramblings of that senile old wolverine down among the nine other great American conspiracy theories. However, I was particularly intrigued by Nutty Conspiracy No. 3: Conspiracy theorists have found a home in Agenda 21, a group that targets the United Nations and other international bodies for advancing what they think is a one-world government. Ah, yes. Our old pal, Agenda 21. You see, if Politico were a journal that actually took politics as a basis for government seriously, instead of being a fanzine for Beltway adolescents, it would note here the one difference between Nutty Conspiracy No. 3 and the other seven nutty conspiracies on the list. Namely, not only that Nutty Conspiracy No. 3 is specifically cited in the national platform of the Republican Party, one of the only two major political parties that we allow ourselves, but also that it is a nutty conspiracy in which actual Republican officeholders actually believe, and on which they are proud to campaign. In fact, one of them was once a presidential frontrunner. The national Democratic platform never has contained a provision to investigate how NASA faked the moon landing. No Democratic congresscritter \u2014 much less a presidential candidate \u2014 ever campaigned to expose what really landed at Roswell. Yet, somehow, a great chunk of the Republican base, and a substantial number of Republican officeholders, and the party&amp;#039;s national platform committee, have signed onto the campaign to keep the United Nations from stealing all our golfs. This should tell Politico something profound about the state of one-half of the American political landscape. But, it won&amp;#039;t. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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