We’re In The Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories

From JFK to 9/11, America has a long romance with the bizarre, the dangerous, and the downright weird world of conspiracy theories.

But in the last four years, our conspiracy pot boils over, with the stirrer-in-chief none other than the ‘most powerful man in the world’ himself, the President of the United States.

We’re currently at Peak Conspiracy. ‘Stop The Steal’ is Trump’s grandest conspiracy yet. They stole the election is going straight into the Conspiracy Theory Hall of Fame for one outstanding reason: Trump spent million trying to prove it. Usually conspiracy proofs consign to the remainder bins of sketchy quasi-science blogs and authors after a quick buck. Not this time. The right-wing of American politics tacitly supports Trump’s conspiracy.

With a robust conspiracy appetite, America has given birth to several lucrative conspiracy markets: The Assassination of JFK, The Assassination of Lincoln, the mega-hit and still number one of all time, 9/11. How about good old Area 51, or the much beloved Faked Moon Landing?

I’m a conspiracy theory skeptic, but that doesn’t stop me reading some material. There’s a fascination with these fanciful flights of human imagination. Usually, the conspiracy theories are better reading than the truth. And the more outlandish the truth, the more potent…