I can agree with you that the amerikan public may not know about specifics...but do you really believe that amerikans have not gotten the general gist that the elites who are in charge rig the system for themselves?
Right they know in general dodgy things are happening, but they are blind to the specifics, not just the stuff you mentioned because that's general too, and I'm surprised Americans don't know about them if that's the case.
The doors, they may be closed doors, but are you really arguing that they are absolutely opaque? That after two hundred years of systematic designs of oppression, you are arguing that it would be understandable that amerikans haven't figured this stuff out?
On the contrary, I agreed they do. But the specifics are the actual secret deals being made which benefit some, while harming many. Those are conspiracies by any reasonable definition.
Consider amerika’s founding fathers (please). James Madison said that government should "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." They passed laws that prevented woman, minorities, and the landless from voting. These laws were kind of public for a long time. Not very secretive. How does knowing the specifics make a difference? Please be, . . . errrm, . . . specific.
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conspiracy
kənˈspɪrəsi/
noun
noun: conspiracy; plural noun: conspiracies
a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
A conspiracy could be open I suppose, but your primary angle was 'but people know dodgy things are going on so its not a conspiracy. The founding fathers probably conspired to get those laws passed, but the laws are not themselves conspiracies.
Slavery is just a little bit ‘dodgy’? Native american annihilation is just a little bit ‘dodgy’?
Don't be silly.
You are arguing americans don’t know about slavery?
No. But I'm not arguing that slavery is a conspiracy. There are people today who are conspiring to trade slaves, however.
Things have been in plain site, for a very very long time. I should think it shouldn't take a huge leap of imagination to believe amerika could do something a little less evil, like vote-rigging
The conspiracies would be the specific plans, not the general effect.
I just posted above about only a handful of american CORPORATE media have total control of information in the US. This is a secret?
No, and nor is it a conspiracy. But when they get together to conspire to fix prices, that is. Even though we know price fixing happens.
People are found guilty of conspiring to commit all manner of crimes we know actually do happen. It's not the crime that makes it a conspiracy its a specific plan by specific people to carry out those crimes that are the conspiracies.
Mod, can you explain what difference general versus specifics make?
Murder is killing someone. Murder is general. Sometimes more than one person plans to kill someone. A specific plan between two or more people to kill someone would be a conspiracy to commit murder.