Implausible
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Writer Peter Grant passes along a fascinating premise for a novel. The only problem is it’s so outrageous that it would be instantly dismissed as a tin-foil hat conspiracy and therefore is too implausible even for fiction.
Except . . . remember the Somali day care scam? And the mailbox registrations in the Phyllis Kahn race? And every business rents their mailing lists nowadays, right?
Could you craft a political action thriller in which nefarious schemers use fake voters to elect a fake President to take over the country? You could be the next Robert Ludlum.
Joe Doakes
Remember: with progressives, yesterdays joke (or fictional plot) is today’s proposal and tomorrow’s law.
June 3rd, 2021 at 10:37 am
The problem with conspiracy theories is that they don’t get you anywhere.
There is nothing actionable about them.
At the edges, it’s hard to tell illegal conspiracy from permitted actions. A lot of mind reading is involved when deciding people did and did not know, and what their motives were.