Eisenhower was no leftist nor was Malcolm Moos, the speech writer for the Farewell Address, but Ike said, in effect, watch out for a clique capable of conspiring against the public interest. Noam Chomsky is today's most sophisticated conspiracy theorist. All this being said, it remains that there does seem to be a lot more conspiracy politics going on today than normal. In both cases, I would argue, the idealistic vision had a basis in potential, but an insufficient appreciation of the special circumstances which allowed them even to visualize it, much less realize it. That is, quite naturally, we seize upon the symptom and attribute its cause to the intuitively apparent agent.
Hot stoves burn fingers.
Suppose we go homeless. At first it is our fault and we suffer torments of self-criticism for our failure. Death of a Salesman . Then we see millions going homeless. They are just like ourselves.