Another recent survey,
this one by Lifeway Research, the research unit of the publishing giant associated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in America, found that nearly half of the pastors surveyed reported having been told by congregants about conspiracies in American politics.
“Overall, the study found that 49% of U.S. Protestant pastors ‘say they frequently hear members of their congregation repeating conspiracy theories they have heard about why something is happening in our country,'” according to the Baptist News.
“Another 47% disagree with that assessment in their churches, including 26% who strongly disagree, saying they do not often hear church members sharing such ideas,” the Baptist News continued.
So what are we to make of these surveys? Writing in The Washington Post opinion section, Brian Klaas, associate professor of global politics at University College London, recently declared that, while many of the January 6 protestors at the U.S. Capitol were Trump supporters, they shared something else: “They were conspiracy theorists. And while hundreds of people stormed the Capitol, there are millions of Americans who share their views. There is no doubt: The United States has a serious problem with pathological political delusions.”
The conspiracies are right there, in everyone's face.
You can run an international charitable organization as Secretary of State and you can have your handlers accept meetings with all kinds of foreign leaders and their sodid associates and accept bribes donations all day long.
You can be vice president of the United States and your son can get onto billionaire energy boards in foreign countries in industries that they have zero experience or credentials in, and even shadier hedge fun positions with foreign countries that work with billions.
You can go around proper national security channels and sell your nation's uranium stores to traditionally foreign adversaries and for what? We still don't know who got paid what for that.
You can obstruct justice by pressing the FBI's buttons not to investigate you and destroy cell phones and email servers and not even get a symbollic slap on the wrist for it.
Conspiracies theories? Who needs them?
The conspiracies themselves are plenty enough.