Who is the fool

Conspiracy theorists
Religious nuts
Hardcore right-wing free marketers

These are somewhat distinct categories. One needn't fall into any one category to fit in any other. Yet all these categories share the fact that they require one to believe in all these ridiculous assumptions in order to make their story believable. I think a great deal of arguments put out by people who would fall into one or more of these categories should be met with a lot of skepticism and, yes, questioning assumptions.