Letter to the editor: How are people believing conspiracy theories?

I can accept that we all have our own opinions and emotions about our representatives and how our government should be handled, and we are all entitled to those emotions and opinions.

But I am totally dumbfounded as to how anyone can be so gullible to buy into the conspiracy theories that some are following and using as facts, without doing any research into their viability..

How can people believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and all those parents faked losing their children? That Hillary Clinton, no matter how much you disliked her, was in a satanic pedophile cult and killing and eating children? Really? And no one got pictures?

And now, that the election was not secure but one group was truly elected on the same ballot the other group were all falsely voted for. Please explain how that works.

About the only thing I think would be possible is that there really is a shadow government and they are behind the conspiracies so that they can spot all the usable subjects for their eugenics progam coming next. And then my question would be, which group are they targeting?

Now if you get it and are laughing, good. Laughter and kindness are what we need. If you are worried about which group you would fall into — sorry.

Diane Kotvas

West Leechburg