03-07-2021, 09:40 PM
Rather than control, conspiracy theories are actually escapes which people use.
Like, its not the fault of the very conservative segments in US who voted for all the policies that were implemented in the past 40 years since Reagan, and even succeeded in pushing the other party to their own side and had them adopt similar policies to win elections, but instead a 'conspiring foreign cabal'. (Not even domestic, mind that)
This way all responsibility and the heaviness of having to face results one's own actions and change their beliefs which cause those results, are avoided. And social cohesion within their own group can be kept.
In the same line, when it became obvious in the past decade that the party they have been voting for had the most corrupt, psychopathic profiteers who went as far to manufacture a lie about nonexistent WMDs to invade a country, kill 1 million people, steal their oil and dump ~$4 trillion war debt on them and the other party was comprised of slightly less corrupt and slightly less sociopathic politicians, the choice of escape they utilized was to create a pedophilia conspiracy and make all the major politicians their opponent party into pedophiles.
This made them worse than the actual sociopaths they have been voting for, and it justified/rationalized their choice of voting for similar sociopaths again. Ditto for Trump, who was supposed to clean 'the swamp' but just benefited his own clientele with the swamp instead.
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So its simply a childish escape, a manifestation of childish irresponsibility for the most part. Instead of facing the music, admitting that they were deceived and made mistakes and most of the bad things which they complain about resulted from their own bad choices, it is easier to make everything someone else's fault instead.
Like, its not the fault of the very conservative segments in US who voted for all the policies that were implemented in the past 40 years since Reagan, and even succeeded in pushing the other party to their own side and had them adopt similar policies to win elections, but instead a 'conspiring foreign cabal'. (Not even domestic, mind that)
This way all responsibility and the heaviness of having to face results one's own actions and change their beliefs which cause those results, are avoided. And social cohesion within their own group can be kept.
In the same line, when it became obvious in the past decade that the party they have been voting for had the most corrupt, psychopathic profiteers who went as far to manufacture a lie about nonexistent WMDs to invade a country, kill 1 million people, steal their oil and dump ~$4 trillion war debt on them and the other party was comprised of slightly less corrupt and slightly less sociopathic politicians, the choice of escape they utilized was to create a pedophilia conspiracy and make all the major politicians their opponent party into pedophiles.
This made them worse than the actual sociopaths they have been voting for, and it justified/rationalized their choice of voting for similar sociopaths again. Ditto for Trump, who was supposed to clean 'the swamp' but just benefited his own clientele with the swamp instead.
...
So its simply a childish escape, a manifestation of childish irresponsibility for the most part. Instead of facing the music, admitting that they were deceived and made mistakes and most of the bad things which they complain about resulted from their own bad choices, it is easier to make everything someone else's fault instead.
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