What's frustrating about so many of these people is that what they're saying sounds like skepticism. But it's not. The real things they should be skeptical about are dismissed because they're too boring (funding of education, congressional redistricting, environmental policy and sustainability, bloated, ineffective government programs, lobbyists...) and they seize on sci-fi conspiracy theories instead purely based on how much more fun and interesting they are.
There's plenty of "conspiracies" and back-door deals in Washington that need uncovering, money and favors changing hands and common people getting screwed in the process. But nobody's terribly interested in those, in energy policy and trade policy and product safety and lender responsibility in bankruptcy laws and all the other things that actually affect our daily lives.
"Hey! The roof is leaking! I think the roofer screwed us!"
"You're right! The roofer landed on our house in a UFO and knocked a hole in it!"
"What? No. I'm saying when he fixed the roof he didn't bother to-"
"YOU NEED TO WAKE UP, MAN! IT'S ALL PART OF THE ROOFER REPTILLIAN AGENDA!!!!"
