The left is always gaslighting and claiming that the beliefs of those on the right are conspiracy theories, mainly because the left commits many crimes that the right has been unable to solve. The reality is that the left is full of crazy conspiracy theories. They’re able to keep them going and sounding legitimate by controlling Wikipedia entries and using their bogus fact-checking sites to “confirm” the crazy.
Hillary Clinton first popularized the phrase “vast, right-wing conspiracy” in 1998, claiming there were massive coordinated attacks against her husband, Bill, after he began running for president. Nothing much came of her accusation, and other than being ridiculed on the right for a while, the phrase has largely been forgotten. The MSM gave her a free pass and still does to this day, even though it should be known wide and far that she was the first really big left-wing conspiracy theorist of the modern era.
The Steele dossier is one of the most well-known conspiracy theories in recent years that has finally been debunked. It was part of a more significant effort pretending Donald Trump was imploding. A 2017 article in The Atlantic admitted, “People like [Louise] Mensch, Claude Taylor, Andrea Chalupa, Eric Garland, and Leah McElrath feed their followers a steady diet of highly provocative speculation, rumor, and innuendo that makes it sound as if Trump’s presidency — and, really, the entire Republican Party — is perpetually on the verge of a spectacular meltdown.”
While the Steele dossier has been discredited, the theme that Trump is going downhill has widely caught steam in the six years since the article came out. It goes hand-in-hand with an even broader theme that anything remotely on the right is falling apart. This includes Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, now X. Musk has humorously been documenting the false claims versus reality on his X feed.
The left-wing conspiracy theories regarding Musk are piling up; almost every day, he debunks another one on his X account. His feed has become a nonstop defense against conspiracy accusations due to the left’s horror that the world’s richest man speaks out almost every day on political issues from a primarily right-leaning perspective.
One of the left’s most prominent conspiracy theories is that man-made global warming is going to destroy the world in a few years. Their doomsday leaders like Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are always predicting dire events taking place in a few years that never come close to realization. Thunberg tweeted, then deleted, on June 21, 2018, that humanity would be wiped out unless civilization stopped using fossil fuels within five years. Gore said in 2009 there was a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap would likely be gone by 2016.
Some have taken environmentalism to great extremes, like the Unabomber. He murdered three people and injured 23 others by sending bombs in the mail to people he thought were advancing technology that would result in the destruction of the environment.
Some of their conspiracy theories they turn around and pretend are ours. J6 is a classic example. They claimed that we made up that the protest at the U.S. Capitol was infiltrated by leftist plants and feds when plenty of evidence has come out since showing that was correct. The real conspiracy theory claims that protesters went to the U.S. Capitol to overthrow the government in an insurrection. Only due to complicit judges twisting the trials against the defendants and prosecutors scaring them into plea agreements has the left been able to pretend this was true.
The issue of election fraud has also been turned around. Everyone has seen the compilations going around from 2016 showing top Democratic leaders, including Hillary Clinton herself, saying the presidential election was stolen. Yet they persist with “the big lie,” gaslighting us about 2020 election corruption, claiming we’re all a bunch of delusional crazies lying. Here’s what I don’t understand about that. Suppose they let us have what we want, which is complete forensic and other types of audits, including investigating voting machines. Won’t that debunk the “conspiracy theory” since they claim audits will show the Democrats really won?
Even QAnon had elements of this reversal of blame. The left made the QAnon phenomenon out to be some widespread belief on the right when most of us don’t know anyone who was even involved in it. Even though much of big tech purged QAnon around J6, the left continues to accuse top Republicans on the right of being associated with it.
It would be like taking Al Sharpton and pretending he represents the left-wing base. Speaking of Sharpton, he has stoked the fears of Jews, labeling them “diamond merchants” and trying to tie them to apartheid in South Africa. While the left constantly highlights a ragtag small number of no-name, fringe antisemites who claim to be on the right, they ignore the fact that many prominent people on the left harbor offensive conspiracy theories about Jews.
Newsweek pointed out that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12), and Black Lives Matter leaders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory are antisemites and noted that Black Lives Matter has used antisemitic slogans since its inception. “Louis Farrakhan is rapidly becoming acceptable among the Democratic mainstream.” Farrakhan has repeatedly called Jews “satanic” and accused them of being behind 9/11, among many other antisemitic remarks.
The problem is that even when the left’s conspiracy theories are entirely debunked, they continue to repeat them. A conspiracy theory about race that has been thoroughly debunked is that “racist Republicans” in the South were behind slavery and Jim Crow. But the left never stops pretending it’s true.
It’s become rather eerie discovering that most of the so-called conspiracy theories on the right are gradually being proven true. But don’t expect the MSM to acknowledge that; they are going to continue to prop up their crazies instead.