I have long been an aficionado of the cult of conspiracy theories. My take: There are crackpots on both sides but more of them on the right. The common trait is a desire to have private knowledge, to have access to information that is out of the public realm. They tend to aspire to be the “Town Crier” type who can’t wait to inform other people of this insider information so that they will seem smarter than they actually are to the people around them. Oh and they really hate to be debunked with facts and reason because they take the bait every time but eventually put themselves into checkmate and lose all credibility.