When Turkey's President Erdogan started rounding up thousands of people the day after the attempted coup, my immediate mental reaction was did he organize the coup so he could go after people he doesn't like for political reasons? How could he know who to arrest if he didn't already have information and why would anyone try to organize a coup when failure means a death sentence?
Meanwhile, Erdogan is saying some Turkish political refugee named Gulen, who lives in the Pocono's, is behind the coup; but how can someone in the Pocono's organize thousands of people in Turkey to risk a death sentence by participating in a coup with an unknown probability of success?
Once you think there is a conspiracy, you can believe anything without there being any basis for that belief other than the conspiracy because whomever is behind the conspiracy is so powerful that they can cover up their tracks. You cannot have a debate with a person who believes in conspiracies. I know this personally because I have a sister-in-law who believes in them and I have been completely frustrated in those conversations where I have tried to tell her she is wrong.
This is what Trumpism is all about. Somehow any number of things in the economy are the result of conspiracies and Trump is going to root out whomever is behind them and provide fixes that tear up trade treaties, disrupt relations with countries that are friendly to us, and make friends with other authoritarian types who do conduct conspiracies, witness the doping scandal in Russia not to mention the forceful taking of Crimea under false pretenses, with Trump praising Putin. I have no idea what Trump will do with China, because he accuses them of manipulating a rising currency while admiring their political process. And China does do bad things over the internet in the interest of furthering their economic growth, but Trump likes eminent domain (I am not against the societal use of it, but Trump projects are not in the interest of society), and uses bankruptcy as a personal strategy for enrichment, so Trump has a philosophy in common with the Chinese leadership. Anything goes when it is for oneself. There are no rules that apply to oneself is the belief of authoritarian types.
I don't like Trump for many reasons, but you would think, absent belief in conspiracies, that more than 50% of the voting population would find Trump unqualified to be President for just some of the reasons that I have. Yet, Trump is now the GOP nominee and many Republicans are standing with him, at least until they get into the voting booth. Except for the fact that I fear for the nation with Donald Trump is charge of the nuclear codes, I would find it interesting in November if Trump's vote totals even add up the total number members of the GOP. How any independent can support Trump is beyond me, but apparently their dislike of Hillary overwhelms a rational measure of Trump.
Oh Vey!!!!
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