A significant number of Americans have a profound belief in government conspiracies. Against all the evidence, the conspiracy buffs feel that the incompetent bozos collectively known as "the government" have superhuman powers of organization and cunning.

I'm not talking here about identifiable conspiracies, like taking away our money in the form of taxes or death duties or fixing the inflation indicators to exclude energy costs, thus heading off otherwise mandatory Social Sec ...

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