Belief in conspiracies largely depends on political identity(i.e. conspiracy theories GOPers believe

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3. Believing is not the same as just saying you believe

as part of taking a political position. I'm equally sure that some believe implicitly and that others only enjoy pretending to believe. I see this all the time here in the South. How many of each the question, but most know they're pushing lies, although with great virtue since they know they're the righteous ones opposing the evils of liberalism.

In the end they all vote the same way for the same reasons (again, overwhelmingly in automatic opposition to Democrats/liberals--nothing at all to do with Democratic politicians "not talking to" them), though, so it doesn't matter if some are crazy and others are just behaving despicably.

We now know that most American conservatives have effectively become extremists who are easily lead into trouble by their enemies. Bless the relatively few who have not. America needs them badly.