It's not even 9:00 AM and I've seen someone passionately defending the existence of chemtrails on a friend's FB, so I think I'll just share this in depth article about America's obsession with conspiracy theories. (I don't agree with everything in it, but there's some good history here.)
How America Lost its Mind https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/?utm_source=fbb