We laugh at RW, QAnon Conspiracy Theories...but you can take LW CTs to the bank. Why?

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83. My observation is that they're often influenced by

extremely well funded and disseminated RW conspiracies, which they give their own twists.

Not surprising. When's the last time a squabble over the Oswald's visit to the Soviet embassy or the grassy knoll divided into right and left factions?

Conspiracists on both" sides" share some fascinatingly dysfunctional personality traits that dispose them to conspiracy explanations. By definition conspiracists are neither seeing nor connecting truth dots rationally, and both types also have a tendency to extremist traits which also tend to pull them together against everyone else.

Those often (usually?) include hostility toward the Democratic Party. As a psychologist flippantly said, RW extremists tend to hate everyone else and LW extremists tend to hate themselves. Intersection: The Democratic Party. Of course they also all share what scholars say are high degrees of "BS receptivity," what makes people believe that Louis Mensch's regurg of what she reads in the NYT proves she has special inside knowledge.

A lot more fun to read about than try to talk to.