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I wonder if it's fundamental human need when faced with scary dangers outside of your control that people tend to believe in utter nonsense snail oil "cures" that will protect them.
This is kind of the running theory on conspiracies, isn't it? To take Milton for an example, it's either we fucked up so hard we'd need to restructure society entirely (which never does play well with conservatives) and change everything, alternatively you shoot Kamala Harris so she doesn't HAARP you anymore or something.
What petrifies me is huge number of Americans who believe in utter nonsense like Jews control the weather or that Biden has buttons on his desk titled
I believe it can be mitigated and discouraged and minimized, but clearly there's something to that "if I buy a bazingamobile, I'm somehow part of the solution and climate change will be okay"