Re:The political right and left are equally susceptible to c...
by standyro on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:22AM
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This study absurdly uses a survey that asks whether banks collude with politicians as an example of “conspiratorial” thinking.
It’s true that billions of dollars were given to American banks by the bipartisan Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which created the TARP program… during the same time period where millions of people homes were foreclosed upon.
That’s not much of a conspiracy. It’s lived reality for at least a few percentage of Americans who were directly affected by those policies.
It’s not surprising that conspiratorial thinking is contagious and rampant in the west when social scientists seem less concerned about the sources and intentions of falsehoods designed to create doubt and dissension.
It’s true that billions of dollars were given to American banks by the bipartisan Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which created the TARP program… during the same time period where millions of people homes were foreclosed upon.
That’s not much of a conspiracy. It’s lived reality for at least a few percentage of Americans who were directly affected by those policies.
It’s not surprising that conspiratorial thinking is contagious and rampant in the west when social scientists seem less concerned about the sources and intentions of falsehoods designed to create doubt and dissension.