I guess what I was saying with my post was this.  Maybe 99.9999% of people think that the flat earth theory is ludicrous, which it is.  Yet something like 25% of Americans think that 9/11 was an inside job (including some people who think that lasers did it), I think around 30% don't believe in evolution (that number might be off but it's a lot), and so on.  It's interesting how these views, like any other position, become attributed to some side of the political spectrum.  So if you don't believe that 9/11 was done by the US government, you're a conservative sheep who has Bush's dick in your mouth.  If you believe in evolution, you're a filthy, muddy minded liberal atheist.

Does anyone else think that it's moronic that an opinion in the scientific community translates into a political view?  I can make a list of scientific theories/facts that either the left or right wing has to disagree with:

Left Wing:
"9/11 was an inside job"
"Moon landing was a hoax"
"AIDS was made by the government to impoverish black people"
"The US government watches people through chips planted in their brains blah blah blah"

Right Wing:
"Evolution is a lie"
"Global warming is a hoax"
etc

Hm, surprisingly I couldn't think of more scientific facts that the right wing denies, despite the fact that in politics "right" is pretty much synonymous with "wrong"

edit: Do any of the flat earth people actually ever postulate a motive for why government officials would trick us into thinking the earth is flat, or is it really all just satire?

Um?  What?  For like 500 years Islam was ahead of the entire world in terms of Science and Mathematics.

Haha, earth flat that's funny. But it's nonsensical, because if the world truly was flat, ships and planes and stuff would fall off the face of it. The reason we don't fall off the Earth is because it's round. The only way the world could POSSIBLY be flat is if once you go a certain point some invisible loop takes you back to the beggining of the Earth, thus giving the illusion of roundness. And if it was really flat, some plane trips would be impossible, like Japan to the western side of the United States.

Thank you Arnold we were all in the dark about why the flat earth theory was absurd