Why the link to conspiracy theories?
Why would knowledge of MKUltra or the Iran–Contra turn someone right wing?
I’ve seen more than a few people assert “horseshoe theory” on this subject. Since the Far Left and the Far Right are the same, they turn you right by sending you left.
Anti-Americanism makes you a Trump supporter or Xi supporter or whatever. And these fucked secret programs from the 60s and 70s make you anti-American. Ergo…
Bcs before I would see them believing in conspiracy theories most of them where in Instagram
It’s been going on long before insta lol
yeah like those “free speech” social media
I mean before social media lol, before the internet even.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I would imagine it gives you the taste of “everyone is lying to you” and then latch on to… Other people still lying to you, but it’s just randoms online, they’d never lie like govt or the MSM.
It’s easy to fall into if you don’t have the critical thinking skills to sift through what is/isn’t bullshit.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m still not getting it. How does this lead to right wing? Why can’t conspiracies lead to left wing support?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it leads people to the fringe in general, I wasn’t making the case for right wing specifically.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OK. I see.
I think this occurs most when a mainstream source mixes opinion and fact. People hear the opinion, over time it turns out to be incorrect so people move away from the mainstream.
When a fringe commentator states an opinion that later turns out to be incorrect, those errors are forgiven (or forgotten) or a similar replacement fringe content provider is consumed.