It's not because I plan to vote for Clinton but rather because the conspiracy theories aren't particularly good. Simply put, the theories I hear about Clinton from the farther-left-than-myself remind me of nothing so much as the many I hear from the far-right about President Obama.
Certainly, the specifics are different. Where they intersect, though, is that both sets require you to hold thoroughly contradictory views of the individuals in question to be equally valid. President Obama is both a feckless weakling and a Machiavellian tyrant. Similarly, if you believe extremists on both the left and the right, Hilary Clinton is equal parts unaccomplished liar with no record to run on or a master manipulator who'd make both Lady Macbeth and Rasputin supplicants themselves before her.
Obviously, after eight years or so of disrespect for President Obama, I expect this sort of nonsense from the far-right. Hearing it from the far left, however, is disconcerting. You like to think that people on the same general end of the political spectrum share a similar capacity for critical thought, so it's disappointing to hear the same kind affronts to good sense from fellow liberals.
Of course, as I've learned the past several months, those "fellow liberals" probably don't consider me particularly liberal. "Traitor to democracy" is a term I can imagine one person I know quite well using to describe me. In the book 1984, the main character observes that freedom is the freedom to believe that 2+2=4 even if the Party dictates that he should believe it adds up to 5. Seeing so many people who I feel I should be agreeing with embrace this kind of "doublethink" is both sad and frightening.
