Let me start with this as a preamble, from: Thomas Sowell Is Right to Predict a Socialist America:

Recently, Thomas Sowell appeared on the Fox Business Network. The host, David Asman, asked Sowell whether America will go down the dark and dangerous road of socialism:

The future of America — do you think that we are destined to go through a period of socialism, a period where these ideas that have not worked wherever they have been tried and will not work here, will be tried here, and could bring down our country?

Sowell responded by offering sober and troubling thoughts:

I do have a great fear that, in the long run, we may not make it. I hate to say that. … And so, we may make it, but I wouldn’t bet on it. (March 6, 2019)

Which leads to this.

The only people who laugh at conspiracies are conspirators themselves trying to divert attention from what they are doing.

For background there are also these. First:

And then this: