Conspiracy Theorist?

At fellowship after church a parishioner says to me she is "not a conspiracy theorist". She says it in response to the great harvest of harassment claims from women who gain a video-cam memory after decades---all just in time to cripple a candidate for the senate, an appointee for the Court, conservative front-runners during presidential campaigns, mass shootings of casinos and churches that become so deadly quiet after the briefest of news cycles (one might be tempted to wonder why such silence over what were never called hate crimes), the "peaceful" protests that we are told happen organically at so many Trump events before and after his election, the sudden arise of iconoclasts who march upon statues in a secular crusade to clean the South of her heroes, and on and on. I respond with: "First can we ask do conspiracies happen? It seems that not only do they happen but conspiracies are quite common.. When I used to watch the NFL (past tense) I knew that each team every week conspired to get an advantage over the other team. A pitcher and catcher in baseball conspire for a 100 pitches a game to get a batter out. An army conspires with maps and strategy and decoys and spies. A mother conspires to get her daughter ambition enough to tidy her room. Two antagonists in a chess match conspire for checkmate. It isn't at all rare. It is quite the reverse. So I wonder of those that make one feel as though he has become cognitively unbalanced to hold such a view---could even this in itself be part of the conspiracy? Might we indeed be after all propagandized pawns in the chess match?