re: #35 freetoken
Good points.

The change in mindset is so large that they psyche rejects it - too scary, too fearful. Dealing with reality is difficult for many of us, in the best of times.

I think that explains a lot of what’s going on with the right. The conspiracies are a crutch to explain away things they don’t want to admit. They are regressing to anything that feels familiar as a comfort. Even though world wide communism isn’t a threat anymore they accept the Birch society conspiracies and pretend that they are fighting communism because it feels familiar to them.