Alas, there's no known cure, but Greenwald once again offers an accurate assessment of wingnut psychosis, citing a Richard Hofstadter classic:
Emulating the Enemy
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms -- he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millenialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse. ("Time is running out," said [John Birch Society founder Robert] Welch in 1951. "Evidence is piling up on many sides and from many sources that October 1952 is the fatal month when Stalin will attack").
Call it a Dick-Cheney-plays-Chicken-Little scenario.
And if you don't support him, well...I guess you're just in favor of the sky falling down.
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