It’s been more than a decade since Barack Obama moved into the White House and began his first term as U.S. president, but conspiracy theories about the history-making leader continue to influence today’s political landscape and polarize Americans.
As a teacher, I had a unit on conspiracy theories to help teach critical thinking, and it was fun looking at aliens and mystical monsters. But now in the last few years with attacks on the government and Russia, it's become more of a public service and education tool to teach about misinformation and disinformation.I am mother to a six-year-old autistic little girl.
In the early days of the Trump administration when he had a loss, for example, he campaigned to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. When he was unable to do that, he blamed it on Barack Obama's manipulation of the deep state and the bureaucrats and authorities that Obama had put in place. The deep state becomes this shorthand for an Obama-led conspiracy to keep the democratic and in the minds of the far-right, socialist agenda moving forward.
"Made our church culture fearful and insular so we left.""Oh, I'm a therapist, client's will bring it up in session.""Dissolution of a 30-year friendship.""My husband falls for them on social media and tries to convince me. Almost divorced because of it."I think that they show just how these beliefs affect people's personal relationships and can actually cause quite a bit of pain. A lot of these responses were not positive.
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