User blog comment:BlittleMcNilsen/RANT: Wake UP, you SHEEPLE!/@comment-9884526-20120414063905

I feel that part of the reason people buy into conspiracy theories is that they desperately want explanations for problems in the world and life, and to believe that there's a shadowy cabal controlling everything explains so much- that guy you didn't want elected? The cabal put him into power for their own sinister plots against mankind. A charismatic American president was gunned down? Assassinated for fighting the cabal secretly. It creates a powerful enemy that controls the major sources of wealth and military, that must be resisted at all costs because its tentacles seep into all parts of society. To fight this cabal makes the average Joe or Jane (who, let's face, it will never mean anything much in this world) look smarter and actually important- everyone else may be duped by the masters of the planet, but YOU know better. YOU know what happened and (maybe) how to fight it.

Life is never that simple. So many complications in maintaining even a small group that the elite would need to be in contact with each other and believe and do everything perfectly. And if they were so perfect, then why bother leaving so many "clues" as to their existence?