Last March, within hours of the bridge accident in Baltimore, these actual conspiracy theories purporting to explain its cause began circulating:
• The ship’s captain had collapsed after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
• Barack Obama was behind it since he had produced a Netflix documentary in which an oil tanker ran aground.
• The crash was due to unqualified ship personnel who’d been hired because DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) policies had been followed.
Does anyone really believe this kind of stuff? Well – according to a very reliable Monmouth poll, nearly 20 percent of all Americans, and over 30 percent of all Republicans, believe that Taylor Swift rigged the Super Bowl so that Joe Biden would get re-elected. Really? Really.
In light of this, I once again realized that we Barbarians are missing out – everyone else is having fun believing in multiple conspiracy theories – but we don’t have any. So let’s fix that right now.