Spend too much time arguing on the internet, and you’re bound to come across an increasingly common phrase: “Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s truth.”
I’ve seen that phrase written in comments sections and on X; under news articles noting that Greek government mismanagement may have been partially responsible for wildfires there last year; and by, in one case, Piers Corbyn, the older brother of former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who uttered the phrase to a ravenous crowd protesting lockdowns and other aligned evils: masks, social distancing, vaccines, 5G mobile networks, and a non-binding UN sustainability resolution that some conspiracy theorists believe is a harbinger of a totalitarian one-world government imposed on mankind. Most recently, I saw it in response to a claim that Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek purposely broke the water main in order to impose tyrannical water restrictions on the populace.
