Reply #43: That's not quite true [View All]

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Loughner did have a range of things in his reading list that involved a glamorization of violent revolution -- including "The Communist Manifesto." But he also named Mein Kampf and cited the racist American Renaissance in some of his postings.

And beyond that, he seems to have been attracted to some of the more way-out conspiracy theories -- stuff about the moon landings being faked and rants about conscious dreaming that come directly out of David Icke, the guy with the nutty ideas about the world being ruled by reptoid space-aliens who are behind the Illuminati. This stuff isn't exactly conservative in an ideological sense, but it definitely circulates on the right and not on the left.