We love conspiracy theories and this is a symptom of deep social illness.

Last Thursday Donald Trump authorised the release of nearly 3 thousand unpublished documents related to President Kennedy's murder in 1963. What did we learn? Actually, not so much.

This was the biggest conspiracy theory in America that was inspired by other conspiracys. Trump, if you remember, began his political career with the so-called Christmas movement that said Obama was not born in Hawaii but in Kenya, and therefore was not acceptable to compete for president [and also secretly was Muslim].

But conspiracy theories are not just an American phenomenon. Two studies -- the first of this type of youGov in co-operation with the University of Cmbridge, one in February 2015 and the other in March 2016 -- show that the British believe just as much as Americans in conspiracy theories. While 19% of Americans believe September 11th was an internal job, 11% of Britons share the same opinion. While 18% of Britons believe climate change is a lie, that opinion is shared by 13% of citizens in the United States.

In fact, more than half the population on both sides of the Atlantic believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Did aliens have contact with Roswell? Was the moon landing filmed in a Hollywood studio? Why did building 7 at the World Trade Center fall itself? What really happened to Princess Diana? Consider these: Only once in your life have you wondered about them.

Big role except news news in the selection of Donald Trump and Brex have also had different conspiracies. We need to see something carefully. In a 2015 study, 55% of residents agreed with the sentence: “The government is voluntarily hiding the truth about how many immigrants live in this country.” And 52% of them agreed with the view that: “Offices in the European Union are gradually seeking to take all lawmakers in this country. ”

Think seriously about it: a year before the referendum, half the British believed there were too many immigrants in the country and that the EU was plotting to take power from the United Kingdom two arguments that were in favour of the EU issue. It seems that the right press has managed to advance its anti-Brussels agenda. And you certainly know that 52% of Britons voted to leave the EU in referendum.

In the question of immigrants, this was the answer according to the parties: 87% of Ukip were hired, compared to 52% of the conservatives, 57% of the Laborists and 37% of liberal Democrats.

Right Voters Looksas up The EU for a lot of time, which today cannot afford Theresa May to have another option other than a full break.

In 2016, several months before the referendum, the anti-emigrim initiative was very high, but higher than in Britain was just one place: Germany. This was partly in response to Angela Merkel's decision to allow 1 million Syrian refugees to enter that country during the summer of 2015. In this context, there was an increase in the extreme right-wing party that opposed immigration, the Alternative For Germany, which managed to enter the German Parliament [for the first time] last month.

You can find conspiracy theories in every aspect of life, and so stereotypes remain: white middle-aged men who have low school education and who are unemployed are the most likely to be conspiracy. Indeed, it is the sense of exclusion that characterizes conspiracyists: those who reject the political system as a whole, who have full distrust of all political institutions, and those who do not vote. And if they vote, they vote for extremes like in this case, for Ukipi.

It's not the conspiracy theories that make people disappoint democracy, but it's frustration with democracy that leads to conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories are symptoms of a deep heart disease in our societies: economic and political exclusion. In the 2016 study, which took place in five other European states [Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Sweden], it was found that states which are more democratic and equal [Suedia] have four times less confidence in conspiracy theories than those less democratic and with greater inequality [Pottugalia].

Brexit has discovered that disease, clearly exposing local divisions. And even worse, if the economic consequences Britain has suffered are severe, as some say, it will cause the country to become more divided and increase more conspiracy theories. ) GU ARDIAN PERISCOP