April 21, 2023 12:10 PM UTC

It's Chemtrail Season Again For Colorado Republicans

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• by: Colorado Pols

With springtime breaking out across the Rockies, it’s time to head outside after an unusually long and cold winter, breathe in the fresh mountain air, look up at the beautiful blue sky…and then, if you’re former Colorado House candidate and newly-elected chair of the Rio Grande County Republican Party Carol Riggenbach, scurry back inside in terror:

Much like the myth of underground aliens at Denver International Airport or the interstellar wars being fought underneath Archuleta Mesa near Dulce, New Mexico, the conspiracy theory that commercial jets passing overhead are spraying chemicals for any number of nefarious purposes from mind control to mass impregnation recirculates on unmoderated message boards and late-night AM radio on a more or less continuous basis. While it’s true that there are lots more planes flying today creating more visible condensation trails than when some of us were kids, notwithstanding the legitimate concerns about jet aircraft emissions and climate change it’s been conclusively proven there’s nothing X-Files-ish going on.

In short, it’s one of the more crackpot conspiracy theories in circulation that most of the time would not be worth elevating by repetition. Let’s be clear that the only reason we’re talking about chemtrails at all is a newly-elected Colorado Republican county party chairperson wants to talk about chemtrails.

We may all be dumber for the experience, but you needed to know.