"If Trump loses, says Trump, then it’ll be because the criminals who run everything will have rigged the vote. Any attempt to show how impossible this is, and how Trump has a history of conspiracist thinking, will be met with the counter that this is exactly what the establishment wants you to believe; what their MSM (mainstream media) buddies want you to believe. And, the more the “elite” attacks Trump, the more it proves that they are part of the plot. In conspiracist thinking “independent thought” (ie conspiracy fantasy) is always to be counterposed to “the official version” — a version untrustworthy precisely because it IS official." - David Aronovitch, today's Times
Yes, it's precisely this sort of mentality that permeates pretty much every newsworthy story these days from the McCanns to Jeremy Corbyn to The US elections to 9/11 and every other recent terrorist attack - it's always a conspiracy engineered by the High-Ups aka the Elite against the little man and fuelled by the 'MSM' and there's not a damn thing anyone can say to refute the arguments as the evidence is always turned around and thrown back at you as evidence of conspiracy. It's crackers but that's the
www.21st century for you.