because the neoconservative right wing Christian lunatic fringe has usurped the word and made it a negative term.

I don't LIKE that they've done it. But they've done it.

Now when somebody hears the word 'agenda,' they translate it in their heads to 'conspiracy'

The same way the neoconservative right wing Christian lunatic fringe has managed to form the language on almost every social issue - which then has to be fought on that basis by everybody else.

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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
...Christian Nestell Bovee