I was pleased that a recent New York Times op addressed something I’ve recently written about.<\/p>\n
Farhad Manjoo discusses conspiracy theory with a Harvard scholar.<\/a> She’s worried about violence, as is almost every friend I’ve spoken to. I’m not, maybe because I don’t have distended amygdalae.<\/a><\/p>\n As I discovered when doing research for How I Learned The Facts of Life,\u00a0<\/em>conspiracy entrepreneurs who, before the 2016 election, were pushing all sorts of pro-Trump anti-Hillary garbage, learned that they got no traction (and no money, i.e., subscription fees) from liberals.<\/a><\/p>\n Liberals did not then and, I assume, still<\/em> do not buy into conspiracies, let alone QAnon. Which is, I think, the bottom of the bottomless barrel.<\/p>\n As a liberal who fell for only one fake news bit (the dolphins in the ever-so-clean Grand Canal), I have thought a bit about why this is. There are either too many answers or too few. Or I’m no longer capable of further deep thought on this subject.<\/p>\n So here’s the simple, if shallow, fact: if you’re a liberal, you most likely do not accept conspiracy theories. Therefore, it’ll be safe for us liberals to gather our herd together without fear of brainwashing as soon as there is a viable COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was pleased that a recent New York Times op addressed something I’ve recently written about. Farhad Manjoo discusses conspiracy theory with a Harvard scholar. She’s worried about violence, as is almost every friend I’ve spoken to. I’m not, maybe … Continue reading