Comment Pointing to a conspiracy site (Score 1) 99
The problem is we lost the media war. Psychopaths bought up all the mass media outlets and are using them to promote insanity so that they can seize power by offering Insanity in place of real economic solutions.
So you don't get affordable housing or accessible Health Care but you can indulge in conspiracy theories about the Illuminati tracking us with microchips in vaccines.
This has been very well studied. Basically the world is a horrible and chaotic place and people want to make sense of it in a way that makes them feel like they have some semblance of control. So they turn to conspiracy theories to get that feeling.
In America especially elections are very close so if you've got two or three percent falling into those conspiracies you can win elections with them. That's why Robert f Kennedy Jr is currently running our healthcare system.