There's this yank I talk politics with sometimes and he is terminally conspiracy brained. For him, everything comes down to that "shadowy conspiracy of elites with purely evil motives" that you describe. He talks about the WEF, globalism, the Bilderburgs, all the greatest hits of right wing brain rot.

He's mentioned several times in the past that he believes that the USA was the one who imposed the "evil Communist dictatorships" abroad like North Korea. I could not figure out for the life of me how on Earth he ever reached this blatantly ahistorical conclusion.

You might be onto something here.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

He’s mentioned several times in the past that he believes that the USA was the one who imposed the “evil Communist dictatorships” abroad like North Korea. I could not figure out for the life of me how on Earth he ever reached this blatantly ahistorical conclusion.

I suppose that could be true in the sense that the US imposed themselves on the peninsula to prevent it being unified under a communist dotp, instead relegating them to the just north half of the peninsula while the burger regime turns the south half into its puppet. Even then, my last sentence was a big stretch.