it's less important for the far right who currently holds control to do things than it is to be seen as doing things. i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every outlandish conspiracy theory is a distraction from a believable conspiracy. this does a few things:
- makes people who talk about conspiracies sound like nuts
- creates a legion of true believers who will dismiss the true conspiracies as lies
- normalizes the audacity of the worst of the conspiracy theories so that when someone starts conducting the framework for the false conspiracy everyone just kinda rolls with it
chemtrails are, ultimately, a distraction from that what's poisoning our air and water isn't additives in jet exhaust, but instead the byproducts of burning fossil fuels like jet fuel. by addressing chemtrails without addressing fossil fuels, the ruling class performed a bit of trickery. for the people who believe in chemtrails and are worried about the poisoning of our air and water, this is now a solved problem. for the people who aren't keyed in hardly at all, this seems like a compromise between the right and the left, and like some progress is being made to protect our natural habitats.
if we want to survive our most powerful weapon is to continue speaking truth into the world