Reply #14: The Illuminati were a scare story cooked up by these same people [View All]

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The actual Illuminati weren't a very appealing bunch -- in many ways they were the Scientologists of their day. But they scared the elite enough to provoke a hasty crack-down. And once the real Illuminati were out of the way, the fake ones became a useful bogey-man.

The Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790's were provoked by an Illuminati scare. And in the early 20th century -- when the specter of communism was making the elite more nervous than they'd been since the defeat of Napoleon -- the Illuminati were dredged up again to become the center of a whole new set of conspiracy theories.

There are no Illuminati. There are only a bunch of people with too much money and power dicking the rest of us over.