MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE STUFF THE ELITES DON'T WANT THEM TO BELIEVE

The Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump were clues, but now a new international study has shown that most people are in fact deeply cynical about what their "highers and betters" tell them. 

These sentiments are also strong in other Western countries, which have seen radical social engineering changes -- like mass immigration and gender deconstruction -- over the last few decades. 

The study was conducted over six years and in nine countries, with more than 11,500 people being surveyed online in France, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the US. The British sample size was 2,171 adults.

More importantly it was carried out by researchers at the University of Cambridge and YouGov, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a "research group" that was created by a British soap tycoon, with annual funding of around £80 million. 

In other words, the study was commissioned by the very same "highers and betters" who are now worried that their propaganda and lies are no longer routinely accepted by the "little people" that they like to move around the globalist chessboard. 

This is also why the study is framed as "people believing in conspiracy theories" as if that is a bad thing when governments and elites routinely lie, subvert democratic processes, and clamp down on free speech. 

As reported by the ultra-leftie Guardian:

Sixty per cent of British people believe at least one conspiracy [non-elite-endorsed] theory about how the country is run or the veracity of information they have been given, a major new study has found, part of a pattern of deep distrust of authority that has become widespread across Europe and the US.

In the UK, people who supported Brexit were considerably more likely to give credence to conspiracy theories than those who opposed it, with 71% of leave voters believing at least one theory compared with 49% of remain voters.

Almost half (47%) of leave voters believed the government had deliberately concealed the truth about how many immigrants live in the UK, versus 14% of remain voters. A striking 31% of leave voters believed that Muslim immigration was part of a wider plot to make Muslims the majority in Britain, a conspiracy theory that originated in French far-right circles that was known as the “great replacement”. The comparable figure for remain voters was 6%.

The disparities between those who voted for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the US was even more stark, where 47% of Trump voters believed that man-made global warming was a hoax, compared with 2.3% of Clinton voters.

Wow, people don't trust their governments anymore. How the fuck did that ever happen?

Yes, I can't figure it out either. Never mind.

The researchers also found:

• 15% of leave voters and 11% of remain voters in Britain believed that, regardless of who was officially in charge in government, the world was run by a secret global cabal of people who control events together.

• The most widespread conspiracy belief in the UK, shared by 44% of people, was that “even though we live in what’s called a democracy, a few people will always run things in this country anyway”.

• Mistrust of authority was high in the UK, with 77% of people trusting journalists “not much” or “not at all”; 76% distrusting British government ministers; and 74% distrusting company bosses.

• Friends and family, by contrast, were trusted by 87% and 89% of respondents respectively, potentially adding credence to news sources shared by social media contacts.

• Remain voters were more likely (50%) to use social media regularly for news than leave voters (34%), and more likely to read a newspaper website (by 41% to 18%). Of those who got their news from social media, Facebook was used frequently by more leave voters than remainers (74% leave, 65% remain), while the opposite was true of Twitter (39% remain, 28% leave).

• Of the countries surveyed, Sweden was the least credulous of conspiracy theories, with 52% believing one or more of the theories polled by the researchers, as opposed to 85% for Hungary. In the US that figure was 64% and in France 76%.

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