A Love Letter to My Trumpian Conspiracy Theorist Relative

Lewiscoaches
9 min readNov 8, 2020
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I write about game theory, a concept built on rational thinking. Still, I do keep a few friends and relatives around who are conspiracy theorists. They believe the wackiest stuff and are convinced they are right. Now, two are annoying me, saying that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged. How do you deal with people like this?

I actually find talking to people who think this way both amusing and entertaining, though also a little intellectually challenging or rather un-intellectually challenging

I have a close family member, Bob, who I really care about. He is a left-leaning, gun-toting, hip hop-rapping, Ebonics-speaking, white, Jewish dude…and an extreme conspiracy theorist.

Bob, as with many conspiracy theorists can offer up a conspiracy-based explanation for virtually any situation or event; Wars, the banking system, Deep State, chemtrails, the Illuminati, who runs the world, the trilateral commission, COVD, vaccines, etc. He will say emphatically that various events have been caused by a conspiracy of powerful sinister groups. I don’t want to debate any of those issues in this article. One thing Bob always seems to lack are facts to support anything he believes.

Conspiracies can cover a wide range of subjects but over the last four years, the floodgates opened…

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Lewiscoaches

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