I just don't get why people can't accept that a punk-ass loser killed JFK

[Springslips]

143. This is a walloping, goofy, weak form of straw man.

The reason we see there is no reason to believe in most of the conspiracies mentioned above is because there is no evidence. None. I spent years of my life believing in JFK conspiracy and it was based upon making illogical leaps, incorrect facts, and confirmation biases. Once I grew, became educated in reasoning, logic, science, and common sense I saw the errors of my ways. It was hard. Cts are very seductive; you want to believe. You selectively perceive and keep yourself in a group think bubble. Look at the arguments above, no one in the skeptic side is saying "just believe the government" as a premise for conclusion. You only say they do because it is easier to dismiss than actual logic. It also gives you a bit of an ego bump, thinking your are not as nieve, gullible, or in the employ of someone. Your last sentence in a Non Sequiter logical fallacy: just because the government has proven to be untrust worthy doesn't support CT. Unless you believe that everything the government does is a lie. If so then how are you a democrat? You treatment of government seems to be as if it were a continual organism, and not a consortium of people and institution that changes over time-- which is down right conservative, with their 'govment' and what not.

Btw: most here do agree that their is good reason to believe in some CTs. Rational ones such as:

Lincoln asassination
Gulf of Tonkon
Watergate
Iran/Contra
Iraq and the WMD

So saying that skeptics are incapable of believing that the government engages in conspiracies is another straw man.

And there is some reason to believe that Florida illegally took democratic demographic voters off the rolls in 2000. How far this went? Certainly to the Floridean SOS office; though there is no proof it went beyond that.

There is weak, but strong enough to investigate, evidence that the 2004 election was flipped in Cleveland. This is based on exit polls and statistical analysis, but more evidence is needed.

My advice is to learn the tools of reason, and be skeptical of CTs as much as you are with the government. Gullibility goes both ways. Don't believe every sociopath with a book or film to sell.