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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It isn't really anything to do with education. People believe what they want to believe. Some people, typically insecure and alienated, want to believe that there's a powerful and malign group running the world. Global bankers, socialists, the Jews, the Freemasons, the patriarchy. It's seems like a paradox, but the idea of a sinister group or system running the world is actually comforting to the anxious. Not only does it offer an explanation for why you personally don't have as much power or status as you deserve, but you can solve the world's ills if you expose or remove the group. The reality - that nobody is really in charge of the world, and most of the bad stuff happens because we're all flawed individuals - is too awful for those who already feel insecure and powerless to contemplate.

It does have to do somewhat with education as the more educated the less authoritarian people become.