I learned long ago that conspiracies like these are usually a result of people not able to face the much scarier reality that everything out there is a lot more chaos and random chance than they want to face. It has always been easy to blame a conspiracy on wealthy elites because the most people aren’t in that circle and are jealous of their financial position. It happened in the 1920s-30s against the Jews in Europe (not just Germany although most of the propaganda came out of there). It ways always talking about ‘Jewish bankers’ and you had stories like this almost mirrored in ‘The Protocols’. It is almost Leninist in its pitting the masses against the rich by painting the rich as figures who secretly are keeping them down.
The story stays the same, the names are just changed.
Some names change, some remain the same, some new ones are added as they move through time, with each generation adding their own groups to the ever growing list of conspirators.
Very well said.
Many people buy into conspiracies when events don't fit neatly into their worldview.
The problem Greece, Spain, Italy, California, Illinois, New York, etc, etc, etc, are having is that their populations are voting for socialist politicians and policies. We have a people problem. Sure, the banks act as enablers in the same way credit card companies enable irresponsible people to run up massive debt. It's not a conspiracy of neo-cons (aka Jews), or "globalist" masons, or the Bilderberg Group, or any other dopey theory. The problem is populations have bought into the idea that they can maintain massive social welfare states, and the reality is these systems are unaffordable and are doomed to collapse. It's really as simple as that.