CONSPIRACY THEORY DESK

AMERICA’S FOUR GREAT Twentieth Century wars were all joined under Democratic presidents. Could there be a single reason for this?

“World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War and the Vietnam War were all entered by the US on the watch of Democrats,” according to John Lee-Wilkes, a documentary film maker whose latest oeuvre has garnered praise and accusations of conservative paranoia in equal measure.

Death Right is a three-part exploration of what Lee-Wilkes claims was the real motive behind America’s entry into overseas conflicts during the last century.

“The silent destruction of conservative America was the aim,” he insists. “And it has been very successful, you might say. Look at what a liberal mess much of the country has become. That is not an accident. Liberal administrations threw us into wars knowing that conservatives would always be at the apex of our military and suffer the most casualties. The effect on the birth rate has been – especially after 1945 – to see the gradual take-over of many of our urban centers by an ever-increasing liberal elite, the product of liberal reproductive victory. The chickens have always come home to roost.”

Mainstream historians, while acknowledging Mr Lee-Wilkes’ angle is somewhat unique, say that it fails to admit how conservative Democrats in the early years of the Twentieth Century were.

“It was only after the Depression that the Democrats began their shift to the left,” says gender and race historian Dr Enola Gay. “Remember, they were the original party of slavery. As the Democrats moved left, so Republicans moved to the right. And he says nothing about the arrival of the franchise for women and its effects on voting patterns. In an instant, half the population of the country suddenly had a say in how it was run. It’s more credible that the American left was more supercharged by the politicization of women than the death of courageous conservatives on the battlefield. Add the urban black vote to that and you may have a better explanation for Democratic success in the Twentieth Century. Repressed minorities challenging conservative oppression broke free under a Democratic umbrella. Dead Republicans merely gave them the freedom to do it. That’s all.”