Brzezinski urges Warren to do Fox News town hall: Candidates should be able to 'walk into any fire'

[DetlefK]

26. I am on a conspiracy-theorist forum. You CANNOT convince those people.

1. They have their own wrong understanding about what is going on and how things work and they will REFUSE any effort to teach and correct them.

2. They will ignore what you said and instead attack a strawman of your position. And you cannot convince him that your side doesn't believe what he thinks you believe.

3. The belief-system of a conspiracy-theorist is truly marvelous: You cannot pin him down, it is everchanging, it is riddled with loopholes and unproven claims and tailor-made assumptions that make it impossible to disprove them. At the same time, even the flimsiest of evidence is taken as rock-solid proof that he is correct.

4. And all throughout this, they imagine themselves as wise men, as calm and recollected rational people who have uncovered a secret, and anybody who doubts them is a ridiculous fool and a hysterical zealot.



I have asked them multiple times on their forum what kind of evidence would count as proof that they are wrong. Photographies? Documents? Witness-testimony? I have never gotten an answer. The thought of being proven wrong is alien to them.