Some million Americans believe that invisible entities control the policy of the country, shadowing forces of the so -called “deep state”, which is rumored to control events, throw toxic substances into food and water, and promote dangerous – even. These conspiracy theories have helped people such as Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Junior to gain prompts with their promises of transparency and salvation from these threats.

Data from polls really show that 41% of Americans believe that the deep state exists. More than half, 54% suspect that many factors participated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

The root of ‘evil’

During history, there are many reasons that enhance the distrust of Americans. US leaders were lying about the Vietnam War. The justification for the invasion of Iraq was also based on lies. Large pharmaceutical companies were harmed by their products, from Vioxx to Oxycontin.

Although newspaper headlines say that conspiracy theories have become dominant in the news, a closer look at the country’s data and history seems less morbid. There is a wide range of beliefs, from radical conspiracy theories to one end, to rational concerns about the abuse of government and large businesses.

There is no evidence that the deep state has taken control of the world or that it plans to do so, but conspiracy theories are rooted in history. In her essay on ‘Scientific American’, Historian Kathryn Elment And secret services expert Simon Wilmets point out a long course of government secrecy that cultivated this mistrust, including CIA secret missions during the Cold War that went beyond defensive stance.

There were secret attempts by CIA For the murder of foreign leaders, he sometimes even cooperated with the mafia to poison people, Olchend said. Prisoners were used inadvertently in LSD government experiments and mind control. The US Public Health Service conducted a study on the then non -treatable syphilis in black men unknowingly. The “war against terrorism” produced a new series of scandals.

Olmsent and Wilmets cite the famous 1964 essay by historian Richard Hofster for “Paranoid style in American policy” This goes back to 1790, when the Americans spread conspiracy theories about the secret society of Illuminati. Hofster describes this paranoid thought as the thought that, although based on valid concerns, “overflows” and puts them out of the right frame. The goals of paranoid thought were once universal immigrants and later the Communists.

The Old revelations of secret activities They often came from famous researchers and adopted by the political left. Recently, the struggle against the deep state has become a right -wing matter and has shifted by including normal, non -secret government services such as the environmental protection and the Food and Drug Administration.

Pandemic, conspiracy theories for vaccines and rising Kennedy

Its pandemic and manner of managing things have worsened. “People tend to be more vulnerable to conspiracy theories when they feel out of control or scared or abandoned“, Said Stefan Levadovsky, a psychologist at the University of Bristol. People were scared and uncertain.

THE Fear led to political polarization with discussions of violent intervention by the government. Businesses and schools were ordered to close, mandate for masks and vaccines were imposed, and people were ordered to stay at home indefinitely. Some Americans were afraid to make the relatively new vaccine and were confused for poorly explained and sometimes contradictory information. Some government and health officials have exacerbated problems with the dissemination of misinformation.

During the hearing in the Senate last week, Kennedy, Trump’s candidate to lead the Ministry of Health and Human Services, used these fears, promising “radical transparency”. He claimed that his long -standing criticism of vaccines was mobilized by his desire for more data on their safety.

Levadovsky, who has studied conspiracy theories, said that more data is rarely satisfied. “There will always be something they think you are hiding,” he said. However, more transparency of COVID vaccines and commands may have prevented the growing distrust that led some parents to refuse to vaccinate their children.

Some employers demanded more doses of vaccines than even some respected immunoologists and supporters of the vaccines considered it necessary. In such cases, saying “vaccines function” seemed to be avoided, especially since the vaccine was found to not guarantee protection against infection or transmission of the virus to others.

People do not need to be advocates of conspiracy theories to wonder how scientists could be sure that the pandemic had not started in a laboratory accident.

It is also reasonable to wait for those confidential documents about the JFK assassination that President Trump ordered to be made public. Advocates of conspiracy theories tend to characterize the gaps in the case as proof of an extensive conspiracy between the CIA, the Mafia and the Cuban government for Kennedy’s murder. This can be a reasonable jump, and no given will reassure them. However, those who maintain some logical doubts still want to know which documents remain secret and why.

The desire for more transparency on government actions and more information about our medicines and food is not irrational until it becomes extreme. Social media has helped to push people into Echo Chambers, where one side is mocking the other for hunting ghosts or closing eyes on real threats. However, we are not as strongly divided as we have made us believe.

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