The phrase "Conspiracy Theory" was a brilliant invention by the conspiracy.

I actually worked for them, but I cannot go into details as no-one would believe me anyway. Plus there are all those confidentiality agreements I signed.

I think that this makes a great deal of sense, it also accounts for why the disaffected and less well educated are voting for people like Trump because he offers them oversimplistic answers to their grievances...such as MAGA!

Or because they are stoopid ?

Yeah

I once read, of the JFK assassination: (words to this effect)

"If you put the Nazis on one side and the Holocaust on the other, that balances. You have a great evil force and a horrific deed. People can comprehend that.
But put Lee Harvey Oswald, an anonymous loser with a rifle, on one side, and the killing of the young, handsome President of the United States, on the other, and it doesn't balance out. People believe something greater must be responsible for such a horrendous crime.

They want a dark conspiracy. It's too frightening to believe that one random man with a rifle can change the course of history."

many of those well educated ppl never believed that the trickle down BS from reagan was a conspiracy by the elites to increase their share of the national wealth/income: much to their detriment.

If they promote the idea that the forces against them are too overwhelming to confront, it’s their excuse for not acting.