I Love It When Dave Johnson Copies Me

Yet another very wise soul who gets how "conspiracy theorist" is used to undermine the people who get it and why being civil and "channeling our anger to our happy places" will leave us even further behind:

I'm now not on speaking terms with a relative because I told her that the head of the CIA (and now the CIA's Executive Director) resigned immediately after news hit the papers about a defense contractor paying bribes and providing prostitutes... This relative is a DEMOCRAT who can't stand Bush. But I'm a "conspiracy theorist" and Bush-hater who "makes things up" for trying to say that the CIA resignations might be related to the corruption/prostitution scandal or that only Repubicans are involved in this Congressional corruption thing.
People don't want to believe this stuff is going on, and the Republicans know it and use it for cover. People want to think that things are going on as usual, that "everybody does it," and the "pendulum will swing back," etc. They have to fit what's going on into comfortable, understood boxes in the brain. That's why the "Democrats took money, too" lie is so powerful.