That suggests some conspiracy. Instead of complaining about persecution - a common tacitc to change the subject from the weakness of one's argument - because people disagree with you, how about making your argument and listening to others?

That's only one theory (a very attractive to the human mind one).

Another is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence#Living,_biological_s...

> Instead of complaining about persecution

I'm not.

> a common tacitc to change the subject from the weakness of one's argument - because people disagree with you, how about making your argument and listening to others?

Falsely framing people you disagree with as being conspiracy theorists or suffering from delusions of persecution is also an incredibly common tactic....although I suspect most of the time the person doing it doesn't even realize they're doing it.