A lessening trust in bourgeois institutions must be the result of "popular paranoia." Are these masses unaware that everything which exists is fundamentally good, and that liberal democratic institutions must be protected from the idiocy of the common people? All ideas that serve to undermine the common paradigm are by definition conspiracy theories, and even lukewarm takes such as “hey the rich have a disproportionate amount of power compared to the poor” must be the same as saying the moon is made of cheese; democracy is something that we have and which all groups threaten to take away from us. Democracy dies in darkness and anything and everything new and different has turned off the light.