What I'm saying is if a Dem become president, the "red" CTist will join the CT pointing out how the plan was developed by Clinton and kept secret from the Bush people. The "blue" CTist will either fall away or (more likely) nod knowingly and not skip a beat.
That will happen for some, but I really don't think it's that simple.
Longevity Factor One: The "Consequences" of 9/11
It seems from my unscientific examination that 9/11 conspiracism has grown because of general dissatisfaction with BushCo. At the heart of this is the Iraq War.
A lot of the theories blame the "conspiracy" for engineering an excuse to invade Iraq, so as long as that war and occupation continue, I think the "9/11 conspiracy as source of our troubles" meme will continue to be highlighted. If the war had gone as well as the White House hoped, I think there would be a lot less 9/11 conspiracism now. That not being the case, I think a lot of this talk will persist as long as the U.S. stays there. So, it looks like it's here to stay for several years, regardless of who the next President is.
Longevity Factor Two: Calls for a New Investigation
Also, if the next President is a Democrat, and especially if the Dems get either house in Congress, I would expect the 9/11 Truthers to actually get
louder. That's because many of them (the liberal faction) will see an opportunity for another investigation.
But this won't last long, for two reasons. First, there probably won't be a new investigation. Or if there is, it won't produce the conclusions the "truthers" want. Second and meanwhile, the ones appealing to Washington will have to fight the hardcore believers on their flank. These harder core conspiracists (which includes the right-wing Christian Patriot faction) just "know" that any new official investigation will be corrupt and that the Democrats are NWO puppets, etcetera. This internal division and external lack of satisfaction will divide the "movement". Most of the liberals will go home. This leaves the hard core.
Longevity Factor Three: Adaptable Mythology
9/11 conspiracism will be kept alive in the mythology of the believers in the Grand-Conspiracy-of-History.
The hardcore believers think that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats because (as they see it) both major parties are fronts for the evil cabal of [insert bogeymen here] who
really run the show. This is, of course, never supported with real social science.
While I must say that I do think that the two main parties have very similar assumptions and policies (especially when compared to the European political spectrum), I don't see it the same way as the conspiracists do. They just see everyone as directly-controlled puppets, ignoring genuine research in the fields of political science, sociology, history, and economics.
It won't matter to these people who is in office. In fact, if it's a Democrat, that will not faze the right-wing conspiracist faction, it will embolden it. They milked Clinton conspiracy theories for eight years, they'll do it again, especially if it's "Hitlery" in office.
That said, 9/11 will diminish
as a central focus. It will be absorbed as another chapter in the NWO/Illuminati/Freemason/Jew master plan, rather than
THE. Most. Important. Event. in. the. History. of. the. World.
Evahr. that it is portrayed as now.
And it will really lose that status when a
new Most Important Event in the History of the World Evahr hits us, whatever that may be. Roll on, conspiracy industry money machine, roll on.
