The Conspiracies Are the Key to Understanding The New Fascists
Alt-Right Fascism presents a conundrum for many people. How can they be so right about identifying the evil and problems in our society and be so terrifyingly wrong about the solutions they demand for these evils? Even worse, how come they do not see the evil of their solutions?
Answer: It is same reason why people who believe in the flat earth don’t change their minds even when they are confronted with irrefutable evidence that the world is a globe. It's the conspiracy theories and the role they play in their understanding of the world that blinds them to reality. People are not flat-earthers because of scientific evidence. They are flat-earthers because they believe that they’ve discovered the secret to why society is morally collapsing, and one of the major villains in their conspiracy worldview is NASA. According to their conspiracy narrative, NASA is part of a big government agenda to keep humanity in the dark about the truth of the flat earth. It is this conspiracy narrative that helps the flat-earther make sense of the world. It explains the evils of the world and gives them the feeling that they are part of something bigger than themselves and that they are fighting back against evil by refusing to believe the lies that NASA has been pushing for decades.
You cannot reason with a flat-earther because they believe they know the truth and any attempt to convince them the world is a globe only proves in their minds that you’re a victim of NASA’s deceptions. Photos of the earth taken from space are all dismissed as fakes and forgeries. Videos from space showing our round planet are claimed to be created via CGI. Send a weather balloon into the stratosphere and show them the photos of the curvature of the earth and they explain it away as the result of a “fish eye” lens being used to deceive. This phenomenon of rejecting evidence, even when they conduct their own science experiments is well documented. The video below gives several notable examples of this. The first two examples are from the documentary Behind the Curve.
What, then, does this have to do with Alt-Right Fascists and those who are under the sway of men like Ryan Dumperth and Corey Mahler of the Stone Choir? Answer: Everything. What makes these men tick, what makes them say the outrageous things they say and inspires them to take the actions they are taking, is the conspiracy narratives they have bought into.
They look at the evils of the Transgender agenda, and it is evil, and they interpret it through their grand conspiracy worldview and see it as a manifestation of a global agenda being orchestrated by a Jewish Cabal. They look at the economies of the Western nations which are heavily based on consumer debt, and they rightly identify the problems with this type of economy. But who do they blame it on? Answer: A Jewish Cabal hell-bent on economically enslaving the world. They rightly identify the evils of Wokeism and CRT and call out the lies of Woke liberals who blame everything on white male Christians and impose DEI all over the corporate world. Who is to blame for all of this? Yep, you guessed correctly, once again, the Stone Choir believes that all of this is the result of a global Jewish Cabal. This is the same conspiratorial thinking as the flat-earthers, but the evil entity that must be stopped is not NASA. Its “The Jews”.
A good way to think about it is that these men, who have a strong sense of what is right and wrong have had that virtue weaponized by their conspiracy narratives so that it is now being used for evil. Ask a Stone Choir follower what their solution is to the Woke Agenda, and their answer will be to eliminate the Jews. Ask them what their solution will be to address the problems in our economy, and their answer will be to eliminate the Jews. This is why they consider Hitler and the Nazis to be heroes and romanticize Nazi Germany. It’s because the Nazis were the ones who “stood up to The Jews”. This is also why if, God forbid, these men ever attained political power, they will commit the same and even worse atrocities as the Nazis of the 20th Century. They have been deceived and deluded by their conspiracy worldview so badly that they believe that by eliminating The Jews, they would be doing the greatest good for the world. When, in fact, they would only be committing the greatest evil.
The fact is, there is no Jewish Cabal. It’s a conspiracy myth that once a person buys into, they’ve become radicalized, and the only hope for them is that someone debunks these nonsensical conspiracy theories so that they can again see reality and do good by standing against the real evil in this world. That evil is not NASA, nor is it the Jews.
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
For further reading on this topic, we highly recommend Todd Wilken’s Pastoral Response to Conspiracy Theories as well as this article which exposes anti-semitism in the flat-earth movement the article is titled, The Modern Flat-Earth Movement and Anti-Semitism
Addendum: The leaders and some followers of The Stone Choir have observed the recent debates by their fellow fascists who also hold to the belief that the earth is flat and they’ve chosen to throw the flat-earth fascists under the bus, but do so in a way that also affirms their conspiracy theories regarding the Jewish Cabal. Here is a screenshot.
