Conspiracy Theorists Are Supposed To be Skeptical, Not Suckers For Anything That Goes Against The Establishment Narrative

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I am part of the conspiracy theorist community. I often entertain conspiracy theories, some of them so out there that they might very well shock you. I’m not convinced of all of them but I keep many conspiracy theories on file in my head in case I happen upon evidence that either supports or discredits them.

Sometimes I entertain a conspiracy theory and by adding to the evidence that supports it I become convinced that it is true, that a conspiracy actually exists and that the establishment media and our government are involved in covering it up. Like, for example, the assertion that Iraq definitely had, without a doubt, weapons of mass destruction. This is a classic case of a conspiracy being real, since a group of powerful individuals conspired to convince the rest of the world that it needed to go to war against Iraq. I don’t think anybody with an ounce of integrity and concern for the facts is going to deny this. So we can say with absolute authority that not only do conspiracies occur, but that the entirety of the media are capable of going along with one and that the masses are capable of acting like a compliant flock of sheep in gobbling up the lies of conspirators. I myself was threatened with violence for not believing the lie that…