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In reply to the discussion: Any good left-wing conspiracies out there? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the farther you go, the more. And it overlaps with conspiracism from the right. A tendency to conspiracist reactions is a personality trait, part of a cluster of problem traits that some just have so strongly that it derails rationality. But this era fosters it to pathologic degrees.
We're also in an era of increase in anti-science (or just "beyond science" wisdom as some think of it) woo, particularly among millennials. Part of the same syndrome, of course.
And also of course, and no coincidence at all, this is an era when intense dishonesty to support whatever one wants is so common as to be almost normalized, with strong overlap with conspiracism among many. The Nina Turner and Trump types would have shot themselves down with their..."alternative facts" in another era, but in this one toxic numbers of voters require them, a qualification for the leaders they'll support.