May 22, 2020
Many people assume [...] that a propensity for conspiracy thinking is predictable along ideological lines. That’s wrong [...]. It’s better to think of conspiracy thinking as independent of party politics. It’s a particular form of mind-wiring. And it’s generally characterized by acceptance of the following propositions: Our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places. Although we ostensibly live in a democracy, a small group of people run everything, but we don’t know who they are. When big events occur—pandemics, recessions, wars, terrorist attacks—it is because that secretive group is working against the rest of us.
Joseph Uscinski
Quoted from: The Prophecies of Q, by Adrienne LaFrance (the Atlantic)
