Well I do find it odd how the news on these balloons and it being aliens ratcheted up for a week and then all of a sudden just dropped off the radar like a light switch had been flipped. Perhaps the 'balloons' and mysterious objects were foreign superpowers gathering intelligence and it was leading us to the path of a new war but it was averted. Its just the way it went from 0-60 in the news to basically no a single peek.
I do think calling people conspiracy theorists and are crack pot delusional people is a bit much.
Many people were saying about smart meters going to be used to introduced surge pricing tariffs and were told all those years ago not to be silly. Ignoring economy 7 which is a tariff people volunteer for. Here we are with Ofgen relaxing rules to allow energy companies to get ready to introduce it. Meaning hiking up pricing during certain hours because of demand and that is why everyone needs a meter. It wasn't lets have meters to help people. So those people back then who said this would happen aren't conspiracy theorists like they were being labelled.
Same with digital currencies - everyone is like who cares it nothing scary, until you realise they can use it as social credit system to take away some of your freedoms just because you were a perfect citizen. You might think well yes its in China it won't happen here but we look to Canada and see what's happened during and since covid and believe me wow never would of thought it would happen.
Slowly but surely our freedoms today are being eroded. They use nudge theory and we have lots of 'nudge units' to influence your decision and choices to the one they want which isn't always to our benefit.
As for the government isn't capable of x y z. Well maybe thats what they want to think to stay ignorant.
I mean look at Sadiq - we're introducing a ULEZ zone its only to ensure cars entering the zone are producing cleaner emissions. And what's only just come out now is that the data collected is being passed onto the Met police for other uses. So how we trust them when this is what they do.
So yes this is why people question everything because the trust levels are so damn low and we are shown time and time again that they say one thing and it means another.