'But One Fourth of the Population is Retarded!'

Trey Parker and Matt Stone explained 20 years ago why the conspiracy theory culture will never go away. We're doomed to live with these dumbasses forever and it's now gotten much worse.

This is the fifth installment in our ongoing Woke Reich Neo-Fascists Rising Series monitoring global antisemitism and analyzing Far Right extremist ideology in America. See the previous parts:

1. Inroduction: The 10 Most Dangerous Far-Right Figures in America Today

2. News Briefing: JD Vance Defends Iran Receiving a $300 Billion ‘Reconstruction Fund’

3. News Briefing: Antisemitic Accelerationist Terrorists Targeted Trump at the Freedom 250 Fight Night

4. News Briefing: Nick Fuentes Asks: ‘Are We Fascists or Are We Not? Is This a New Rome and a New Empire?’

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On October 11, 2006, “South Park” debuted the ninth episode of season 10, “Mystery of the Urinal Deuce,” one of the greatest satires of conspiracy theory culture ever made.

Here is the conclusion of the episode after the boys have followed a series of clues to uncover who really planned the 9/11 terror attacks:

Kyle: I knew it! You didn’t really plan 9/11 and you didn’t really shoot that guy!

President George W. Bush: Boys, you don’t understand. People need to think we’re all powerful, that we control the world. If they know we aren’t in charge of 9/11 then we appear to control nothing.

Kyle: Why don’t you just tell people the truth?!

Bush: We do that too. And most people believe the truth. But one fourth of the population is retarded. If they want to believe we control everything with intricate plans, why not let them?

“Why not let them?”

Yes, why not feed stupid people even more conspiracy theories to make them even dumber?

What’s the worst that could happen?

What could go wrong when governments around the world flood people’s brains with conspiracy theory disinformation garbage for generations?

In the 2006 episode above, Parker and Stone suggest that 25% of the American public was so dumb that they believe the federal government is so competent that it could secretly get away with murdering more than 3,000 of its own citizens, then pinning it on Muslims, and using that as a justification to invade Afghanistan.

And going by the polling of the period, that number is a reasonable estimate of how many people at the time embraced 9/11 conspiracy theories.

A Scripps Howard News Service poll in 2006 found that, “Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them ‘because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.’”

How many Americans really believe the conspiracy theory?

It depends on how you ask the question and what specific version of the conspiracy theory one polls. More people are willing to believe that the government knew the attack was going to happen and allowed it to do so, rather than the smaller number who believe the government actually participated in the attack itself.

That was 20 years ago, though. Surely after two decades of factual debunkings and education, there would be some progress in fewer Americans believing bullshit?

Absolutely not!

In August of last year, Change Research surveyed 1,590 registered voters. Heaven knows how much worse it would have been if they had thrown in the third of the population that is unregistered too!

The number of people who embrace 9/11 conspiracy theories among just that group, now reaches 41%, so 5% worse than it was 20 years ago. It really would be much higher with the non-voters thrown in too! Statistically, people who don’t vote are either less educated, more paranoid, or both.

However, this is certainly not the only form of conspiracist ideology which has risen in recent years.

Today the Blue Square Alliance (BSA), published a new survey of antisemitic attitudes in America. Let’s go ahead and make these numbers supersized so they are harder to ignore:

30% embrace antisemitism, up from 24% in 2025.

32% of Americans do not consider questioning the Holocaust to be antisemitic, up from 13% since 2023.

28.8% of Gen Z and 29.1% of millennials say Jewish people are a threat to the unity of society.

Here is the chart for that one:

Let’s pause on that for a second:

Gen Zers and millennials are more than twice as likely than boomers to hate Jews.

The higher levels of antisemitism among the young tracks with the Anti-Defamation League’s 2024 findings, showing “millennials agreeing with the greatest number of anti-Jewish tropes on average, at 5.4. They’re followed by Gen Z at 5, Gen X at 4.2, and Baby Boomers at 3.1.”

Here are some more scary charts from BSA’s report on this topic:

Friends, at this point we are totally cooked as a country.

The road to idiocracy is underneath our feet and we’re charging ahead full speed.

The younger generations are lost.

I see no reason for optimism that these trends toward more conspiracism and more antisemitism will reverse.

Gen-Alpha will almost certainly be even worse as their screen addiction is even more intense and thus more mentally crippling than what the Gen-Zers experienced.

Look at the broader wilderness of the conspiracy theory landscape and the frightening levels of support:

So 10% moon landing deniers, 23% flat-earthers, 29% chem-trail enthusiasts, 34% on board with the Far Right’s Federal Reserve conspiracy theory, 41% vaccine deniers, and 42% election deniers.

When you look at those numbers, does it make a bit more sense why Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, Kanye West, Stephen Miller, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Thomas Massie, JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene can draw such significant support?

There is a serious market for conspiracy theory content and outright antisemitism. Those numbers are big enough in themselves to be their own political party.

Carlson and Greene — who both announced last month they have now left the GOP — know these numbers far better than almost anyone on the planet.

I see no solution.

This is only going to get much worse.

I’m so sorry.

Right now we’re in 1928. The stock market crash that led to the Great Depression happened in 1929. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

Nick Fuentes will turn 35 on August 18, 2033.

The first time he will be able to run for president is the 2036 election cycle.

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