re: Why are conservatives so prone to believing conspiracy theories?

quote:

---

I know people will respond with "Russian collusion" but that was so
widely reported by the MSM you can kind of see how liberals who hate Trump would believe it.

---

You just answered your own question.

Many news sources are not just unreliable, but deliberately duplicitous. As are other sources of authority. Reps from the CDC, WHO, NIH, FBI, CIA, etc, etc, etc have publicly lied on multiple occasions. They are not trustworthy.

Politicians lie all the time. Some are held to account, but most are not. Google, twitter, and FB actively suppress conservative voices and materials unfavorable to the left.

So who can be trusted? Suddenly a pic of a young Nazi in an SS uniform surfaces with a tag indicating it is George Soros. The same sources which routinely lie about everything else, claim the pic is actually Oskar Groening rather than Soros.

Is the claim credible? Can it be trusted when coming from thoroughly sullied sources? The answer is "yes" to the former; but "no" to the latter. So conspiracy theorists continue to circulate the image as Soros in an SS uniform.