Topic: How do you define a 'conspiracy theorist'?

[Kentucky Conservative]

I have found that when participating in general discourse on the Net, and I take a position that is decidedly contrary to what 'everyone knows,' I automatically earn the label of  a 'Conspiracy Theorist' and anyone whose safe space was nudged by my assertion that they may not know the TRUTH about a given topic immediately come out on the attack in an effort to discredit me, and negate any possibility that I may be correct.  After all, once society at large decides that something is true, normally because they saw it on TV ...  and network news anchors NEVER lie ... and they have invested no more time or energy into discovering the truth than their knee-jerk reaction to the news story as it is spewed by (insert ANY news network here)    ... who is anyone to come forward with facts and astute observations that contradict what 'everyone knows'?  Who believes he can change the minds of a society that has largely, willingly and repeatedly swallowed the Kool Aid?  It is a human psychological phenomenon that causes people to go to great lengths to avoid admitting that they were FOOLED.  They will defend their original conclusions vehemently, rather than admit that they were fooled, and those on the Left DEPEND on this phenomenon.

I tend to receive 'Breaking News!' stories with the skepticism that until they are proven to be TRUE, they are most likely just another Socialist propaganda hit piece fueled by an anti-American agenda... and being the retired guy I am with the resources I have, I generally spend quite a bit of time researching the claims of (insert any 'Breaking News!' story here) before I draw any conclusion about the validity of a story.  I can tell you that in most cases, where there is a Socialist agenda behind the story, it is almost always pure propaganda.

I am not going to get into specific events of recent years.  I have better things to do than combat clueless keyboard commandos.  Suffice it to say, I am astonished at how easily the masses are fooled by stories spewed by the News Networks.  Vladimir Lenin called these people, "Useful Idiots."  They are among our society, and our politicians, and our lawmakers, they are the sawdust headed sock puppets of the LEFT.

‘It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.’ - Mark Twain

‘If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.’ - Adolf Hitler

'A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still' ? Dale Carnegie

[Libertas]

Being a skeptic is a good thing now days...there's a lot of fog to cut through and part of the problem in the populace allowing the GoebbelsMedia, SocialistMedia et al to thrive is a condition not unusual in a wealthy nation with relative peace and prosperity - laziness, sloth, degeneracy, apathy.  Eventually events, usually of the unpleasant variety help blow the fog away...and then there's fire and smoke...and when that clears the victors claim the carcass.

“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” – Samuel Adams.

Re: FakeNews, take note of this - https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/13/james-okeefe-previews-hidden-camera-investigation-of-cnn/

There continues to be a barrage of evidence damning the practices of the GoebbelsMedia that not even the GoebbelsMedia or their beneficiaries can avoid, they can deny and will with more BS, they cannot avoid it.  It is high time they get their duplicitous asses Cloward/Piven'd into oblivion!

[AlanS]

Today just being a conservative means you're a conspiracy theorist. Despite facts that say otherwise.

[Libertas]

Or if you call out the elites accurately...like Kurt does in this nice gaslighting write up...you are labeled many things...but being called names by ilk that wears the label better should be seen as evidence that the truth does indeed hurt them.