Paranoia is the enemy of logic.
People used to think I was a crazy conspiracy theorist.
These days they call me a moderate. :-)
By the way I have a theory that paranoia is partially genetic.
You see my ancestors in the old country were divided into two groups—the paranoids and the normal people.
The normal people were convinced the Czar’s horsemen would never kill them and seize their property.
The paranoid people thought the Czar was a greedy SOB would be happily have his horsemen kill them and take their stuff.
The paranoid people fled for the US.
The normal people were slaughtered in the old country.
Think of it as evolution in action.