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A lot of 'sects' of these conspiracy theorists overlay one another...A large percentage of anti-vaxxers are also anti-5G, who are also into essential oils and all that, who also believe the earth is flat, who also believe the illuminati/zionist/nwo is trying to control everyone through gates/soros.
Unfortunately a large percentage of them are also hardcore republicans who truly believe Trump is doing a good job, and again a large percentage of them are hardcore bible-thumpers (I won't call them Christians because they are absolutely nothing like what Jesus taught). They're also the racists who refuse to say BLM but instead aLl LiVeS mATtEr.
And they are the ones who think covid is a hoax and refuse to wear a mark because mUh FrEeDum!!
Obviously not everyone is all of the above but it's undeniable that too many uneducated people claim membership in many if not all the categories above...and these dumdums are collectively a true cancer on our society. Not because their opinions, or their refusal to believe in empirical science, but because as others have stated the age we live in has given them a real voice, and stupid people are unfortunately the loudest.
There's an actual term for this phenomenon - although the actual name eludes me - it theorizes uneducated (ie. stupid) people have a far likelihood of believing one or more conspiracy theories because in their minds, they can finally be 'smarter' than the rest of society because only they can see the actual truth. smh.
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