Why are Conspiracy Therorist So Eager to Out Themselves?
Talking with someone who believes far right nonsense, it is striking how quick they are to throw out their unreality card, letting you know how full of bullshit their line of thinking is from the beginning, and no amount of logic or evidence will sway them because they are already believing in magical consequences and fantasy conclusions. It reminds me of extremist christian groups pressuring members to convert others. It doesn't convert others but drives wedges between the christian extremists and their more grounded friends and family. Right Wing conspiracy theories drive the same wedge and serve the same purpose. The right wing scheme is to envelop people in this verisimilitude of reality, and then socially isolate them with their completely unhelpful and actively antisemitic conspiracy theories, and then left alone and having driven friends away, they are plump and vulnerable for the right wing hate machine to suck them up and slot them into the right wing fascist army. ...