Is the MAGA Call for a White House Ballroom a Conspiracy?

Maybe. Or maybe it's just the shared values and expressions that come from something more common, that doesn't need coordination.

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So, in of course the wake of the Donald Trump assassination attempt number four three or four there have been some decent calls from the MAGA movement to say, well, you know, if we had ourselves a nice secure bulletproof ballroom on the White House grounds where the military was even closer, this might not be quite so much of an issue as when we hold it at hotels. Well, there are some folks in media on one side or the other, and media online spaces and conspiracy spaces, blogs and podcasts, and all the rest of it. Well, they're saying, wait a minute, this sounds like a big conspiracy. Why would all of these influencers and all these mega people know to talk about the exact same thing at the exact same time using the exact same phrase if it wasn't hand fed to them? The conspiracy is undeniable. I would just like to point out that uh I know a lot of Christians, and whenever a disaster happens around the world, what are many of our first reactions? We say we're gonna pray. We say, hey, can we donate some money to this? We say, hey, what about the infrastructure there makes it difficult to prevent these kinds of disasters? We say, is there anything that we can do to help? Now I would love for somebody, I'd love for somebody to say that that is a mass conspiracy of Christians just waiting around, and the minute a hurricane strikes on Florida, their orders are enacted, the sleeper cells go to work, and everybody is suddenly waiting to post, I am praying for the folks of Cape Town. I don't really think that's the case. It's a lot simpler than that. You see, it's a bunch of people in a similar space who share similar values, and one of the ways that they have been taught to express those values is in a certain way, with certain actions and vocabulary. That's just normal. It is what a culture does. And I podcasted a while ago about culture. And so, um and I I I I thought about this during the whole COVID during Black Rights Matter and during a lot of other things, and people saying, you know how many people would have to be in a conspiracy for this to work? And quite often it was people trying in good faith to defend whatever the political left was doing or saying. They said, you know how many people would have to be in on the conspiracy for it to be a conspiracy? It really doesn't take that much if everybody's already on the same playbook, anyways. If everybody's reaction to another political shooting is, well, you gotta outlaw more guns. It doesn't take conspiracy, it just takes a whole bunch of people that already agree that there are too many guns. Whenever there's a major catastrophe, like an airline crashes, a whole bunch of people say, you know, we should regulate this a little bit better. It doesn't take conspiracy, it takes a lot of folks who think that regulations is gonna be safer for people than unregulations. Or more regulations are gonna be safer than the regulations we currently have. So maybe it is a conspiracy, but maybe just maybe. It's a sign that there are large groups that share similar values and express them in similar ways, and that has nothing to do with how they are communicated to, merely how they are taught in the first place. Cheers.