Measuring the Lunatic Fringe

Measuring the Lunatic Fringe By Elton Camp On the Internet their wacky beliefs are found Although they have very long been around The lunatic fringe has a range of belief Confused and frustrated, they suffer grief They grow angrier with each passing day And insist all the more on things they say Crazy, naïve, gullible or just uninformed Against all reason and sense they’ve stormed Birthers, conspiracies, 911, or assassination Or Illuminati or freemasons control the nation For every event and each incident they can Easily discern operation of some Master Plan Each wild claim they assert they can prove And to believe their words, it does behoove Some of them are simply deliberate deceivers The nonsense is very real to some believers Yet, governmental lies the public’s trust lost A growing lunatic fringe is the terrible cost Its indignation will likely continue to grow The end result nobody can possibly know