Way way back in astronomy history - they had this concept of deferent and epicycles.
See, they'd observe the movements of planets in the heavens and for some goddamned reason - they appeared to move BACKWARD and forward again.
The ancients couldn't figure it out, so they proposed this idea that in a planet's orbit, it did a smaller circle called an epicycle kind of like the intricate patterns you
might have made years ago with Spirograph.
There was this one little problem....
It STILL didn't account for the motion - so they figured it made MORE little spins on the circle.
And more.
And MORE.
At one point, they had Mars making something like seven concentric spins on its cycle to account for its motion.
And why, might you ask?
Because they refused to believe that Mars and the other planets revolved around the Sun. If they did THAT -
well, they made simple loops. Not precise circles, mind you. Ellipses. But absolutely NONE of this epicycle crap.
So your choice was - planets go around the EARTH and make ridiculous and highly complex orbits - or
they go around the Sun with one simple orbit.
Believing something SIMPLE was too hard for them, because they wouldn't give up the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What we have now is an increasingly complex narrative of presumed collusion between Trump and the Russians which still doesn't fit anything -
it gets more difficult every day to construct.
Why is it? Because the MUCH MUCH simpler reason - the Occam's Razor reason - the one that says, sorry but there really has never been any
"collusion" - is a conclusion they just won't allow.
And so like the ancient astronomers, they MUST build an unbelievable construct that doesn't work, just to support what they
believe, even though reality refuses to support it.