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An AP story in the Denver Post highlights the spread of unhinged conspiracy theories, assisted by “social” media and Donald Trump and the Trumpettes. Here’s a bit.

“What’s different now is that there are people in power who are spreading this conspiracy theory,” she (Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted–ed.) said, adding that Trump’s conspiracy-minded rhetoric seems to fire up part of his base. “Finally, there is someone saying they’re not crazy.”

Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but experts fear the powerful engine of social media and a volatile political climate have ramped up the threat of violence.

Aside:

Methinks one of the fuels for conspiracy theories is persons’ inability to deal with the complexity of real life. Instead, they embrace the absurd in a search for the easy.

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