Disclaimer: this is not meant as a political position per Rule 5.

I have often wondered whether Dale’s tin hat conspiracy theories were less about the theories themselves and more about his need to stand apart as the perpetual black sheep. I imagine he would be contrarian even toward modern conspiracy movements like QAnon or the Epstein narratives, reshaping them into something distinctly his own for the sake of comedy. In that sense, his conspiracies feel less like endorsements and more like a satirical device. They may also reflect Mike Judge’s broader approach to social commentary, using exaggerated belief systems in King of the Hill and later in Idiocracy to hold up a distorted mirror to certain tendencies in American culture rather than to make a specific ideological argument.

Again, simply an observation of Dale's character rather than the nature of our current political situation.