Yes, they cannot understand emergent or systemic outcomes. So, trying to explain outcomes of capitalism that involves mentioning desires or profits of the Bourgeoisie or why the DNC is more hostile to progressives than Republicans, has caused them to tell me to my face I was a conspiracy theorist(because the only way is if they were secretly colluding to choose that outcome, obviously).

Which is also why bad actors and outcomes is because Putin called them up and paid them to do it.