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It’s because conspiracy communities are also a conspiracy. They’ll take something that people justifiably have questions about, like the JFK assassination, Saudi involvement in 9/11, the Epstein case, etc. and turn it into something ridiculous so that anyone else who starts asking questions is immediately labeled a kook.
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.
Mexicans
One of the reasons I’m proud to be of Mexican descent is that my presence alone in any given room is actively motherfucking everything in existence. Chemical bonds literally fall apart in my presence. Each time I talk, a white person dies.
“It can’t be that we structured our society in a shitty way, it must be outsiders fucking it up.”
Who was it that said antisemitism is the socialism of fools?
Right wing conspiracy people recognize that there is a problem but they can’t admit that the problem comes from within. It has to be outside corruption delivered by some racial or religious minority. There is nothing outside capitalism. Everyone on the planet is subject to it. All its problems come from within.
Education level, mainly. Standardized education leads to greater conformity in thought, and liberals condescend to each other for believing the wrong thing. Conservatives are socially allowed to believe whatever batshit thing they want, but since they’re all watching the same media and aren’t very original, they tend to all come up with the same basic ideas. And the media they watch is designed to manipulate uneducated people into voting Republican so it really leans into conspiracy thinking to keep the hogs seething.
