This is the stuff that makes historians happy:<\/a>\u00a0 New documents.\u00a0 Pretty much doesn\u2019t change anything.\u00a0 Most thinking people know that, barring some new evidence that has yet to be produced, the vast FDR conspiracy theory is about as believable as the vast Obama-is-a-closet-Muslim theory, or that vast 9\/11-was-part-of-a-conspiracy theory.\u00a0 The great thing about conspiracy theories is that they are self-sustaining.\u00a0 All evidence proves they are right.\u00a0 And the evidence that suggests they are wrong?\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 It\u2019s all part of the conspiracy.\u00a0 Just read the comments.\u00a0 Chances are, most who say \u2018well duh, obviously FDR planned it\u2019 have probably no clue beyond \u2018it\u2019s what they\u2019ve heard\u2019.\u00a0 A shame.\u00a0\u00a0 But then history, as we know, is less what really happened as much as what \u2018they\u2019 tell us happened when it fits what we already wanted to be true.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the stuff that makes historians happy:\u00a0 New documents.\u00a0 Pretty much doesn\u2019t change anything.\u00a0 Most thinking people know that, barring some new evidence that has yet to be produced, the vast FDR conspiracy theory is about as believable as the vast Obama-is-a-closet-Muslim theory, or that vast 9\/11-was-part-of-a-conspiracy theory.\u00a0 The great thing about conspiracy theories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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