Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?

Brut America

"People that believe in conspiracy theories are not dumb."  Half of Americans believe in conspiracy theories ... here's why.  Special thanks to  Abbie Richards

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00:00It's not a conspiracy, it's a fact.

00:02The shots came from more than one direction.

00:04There had to be a conspiracy.

00:13Craft which have been developed from alien devices,

00:17which have been reproduced by the Americans.

00:21Death is six minutes away.

00:31That's part of their validity, is that some conspiracies are real.

00:55And the fact that they can always point to that.

01:01There is a conspiracy theory that the term conspiracy theory was created

01:12in the late 1950s-ish by the CIA to discredit conspiracy theorists

01:19and make them sound crazy.

01:22It's not true.

01:24You can go back into public records.

01:26I looked in the Library of Congress and found mentions of conspiracy theory

01:31from the late 1800s.

01:57Tuskegee, like, very real.

02:00People who believe conspiracy theories are not dumb.

02:28They're spending hours doing this research,

02:30and they've certainly figured out how to navigate it,

02:33and they're very, very smart when it comes to sharing it.

02:37It's not that a bunch of people are stupid.

02:40It's that a bunch of people feel stressed and feel disenfranchised

02:46and don't know why, and they've turned to the wrong answer.

02:51But they were looking for an answer.

02:58Well, is it your position that the cover-up is at least

03:27Watergate-style about to break open?

03:30I think so, yes.

03:47And that created Pizzagate, Wayfair, QAnon,

03:52but QAnon, even within itself, is subdivided.

03:56There's so many different onboarding methods for it,

03:59and once you get into whichever conspiracy you enter through,

04:05then it's just picking up more and seeing how everything's connected.

04:09It's not one that is the biggest.

04:13It's the way that they link together.

04:43It involves the whole Space Force, possible alien life, like pedophiles,

05:06and it just seeks to tie all of that together.

05:09There's things that have been going on since the assassination of JFK.

05:12Terrible things.

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