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Some people allege that the politicians, bureaucrats, and corporate elite that make up the ruling class are conspiring to enrich themselves, gain more power, and transform society

into a totalitarian dystopia.

From assassinations to false flags, cognitive warfare, to the rigging of elections, engineered

pandemics to manufactured economic and social crises, there is little they won't do to achieve

their nefarious ends. But to make such assertions as to be branded a conspiracy theorist,

and conspiracy theorists are mentally unhinged, paranoid, and deluded, and we should ignore

their claims as we would the ravings of a madman, or so we are conditioned to believe.

In this video, relying on the book Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance Dehaven-Smith,

we explore why a blanket rejection of conspiracy theories is naive, and why our freedom

is contingent on more of us being open-minded to the possibility that conspiracies among

the ruling class are a prime factor contributing to the

downfall of the West. As the historian Catherine Olmsted explains, a conspiracy occurs when two or more

people collude to abuse power or break the law. A conspiracy theory is a proposal about a conspiracy

that may or may not be true. It has not yet been proven.

While conspiracies are as old as civilization itself, the term conspiracy theory only gained popularity in the second half of the 20th century.

The way this term made it into popular discourse was through a 1960s CIA propaganda campaign. The CIA was concerned about

the growing distrust surrounding the U.S. government's investigation into the John F. Kennedy

assassination. The Warren Commission, which was tasked by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate

this crime, came out with their report in 1964, and it concluded that Lee Harvey

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