I think they are way past lunatic stage. They all belong in a rubber room deeply medicated so they can't hurt themselves much less anybody else.
Dad is almost 80, and I have patiently tried to explain the sweeping nonsense that has infiltrated virtually avenue of our lives with some little success, and recently I had tried to explain to him some of the "conspiracy" nonsense that is making the rounds these days about the 9-11-01 mass murders. I don't think he could comprehend what I was talking about, till he saw the C-Span deal yesterday. What we're witnessing is more or less the same thing that happened with the Kennedy assasination. Deflect blame everywhere but where it lays.