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@WhippoorwillSong Yes the article speaks to this. Quite elegantly put I think.

“It’s commonly assumed that education inoculates against conspiratorial thinking. However, schooling is not a foolproof safeguard against paranoid thinking.”

And

“Education and conspiratorial thinking have an ambivalent relationship”

@auscandoc @WhippoorwillSong

From The New Republic 2021— "Democrats should try campaigning on the truth: The Republican Party is controlled by intelligent, college-educated, and affluent elites who concoct dangerous nonsense to paper over a bigoted, plutocratic agenda and to justify attacks on the democratic process. "

newrepublic.com/article/161266"

The New Republic · The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon PhenomenonTheir belief that this surreal conspiracy has arisen because of the poor education of its adherents is based in classism, not reality.