Muscat is now pulling Nationalist Party supporters’ strings too – because irrationality spans the political divide

This is a really good piece – don’t miss reading it. It’s Manuel Delia on the subject of people’s irrationality propensity to prefer tinfoil hat conspiracies to the rationality of Occam’s Razor.

I prefer not to spend too much time looking at the debates on social media and in specialised groups of ‘Nationalist supporters’ at the moment, because I’m running the risk of going right off them and being really, but really, rude about them. Never have supposedly rational Nationalist Party voters sounded, in their blind extremis of desperation, so much like a bunch of Laburisti.

Well, the past couple of general elections have really sorted the wheat from the chaff. But what it has sorted, mainly, is those Nationalist Party voters who are ‘supporters’ in much the same manner they would root for a football team – in other words, pointlessly and without any basis in policy or political ideology – from those who don’t think in terms of “my party” (an expression which makes me retch) but only in terms of political ideology.