What If My Conspiracy Theory Friend Is Right?
We all like to think that we’re objective and rational in our thinking, and that, if we were presented with sufficient evidence, we’d change even our most entrenched beliefs and admit that we’d been buffaloed. We like to think that we would put truth above our pride, regardless of how publicly humiliated we’d be in such a case.
All that said, I will say here and now that it would be very hard for me to acknowledge that I was wrong about the president and his administration, and admit that: (more…)
Our new world, one that features mass adoption of conspiracy theories, forces us to consider many things for the first time. Perhaps the single most important of these is law enforcement in a society in which tens of millions of people are being called to violence by people they trust. Sure, there is the U.S. president encouraging the Proud Boys, but there also thugs in lesser positions, e.g., the white supremacist/terrorist shown here.
As shown here, when formerly state-run television network Fox News began to report that Trump lost the 2020 election, they were demoted to the “corrupt news” side of the ledger. 
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From the Boston Globe: The Texas lawsuit asking the US Supreme Court to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail. 
I don’t envy guys with lots of money, big cars or trophy wives.
A reader requested comments on his query at the left.
Remarkably, conservatives disapprove of the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the basis that she’s an angry child who should be in school rather than making noise about a branch of science that she doesn’t fully understand. 
I know there are people who think that extreme right-wing violence pre- and post-inauguration is a needless worry, and that the notion that this is even possible is demeaning to the garden-variety Trump supporter.
In his ongoing attempt to inject as much hostility as possible into the U.S. culture, paralleling the strategy that Trump himself has found so useful, Rush Limbaugh said on his show yesterday, “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession, It can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.” Why not incite violence in an already hate-filled society? 
