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I feel like that's the gist of it, but it's a little deeper than that. My understanding is that there's a deep-seated psychological issue with conspiracy theorists where they can't accept random and chaotic events, or even the inexplicably crushing circumstances that might surround their lives, and so they develop a fundamental belief that all the bad things happen because of nefarious forces controlling our lives, down to extreme weather patterns and wars.
So they reclaim control by rejecting much of what those forces tell them to believe, (because as you said, JB, they think they're smarter than the rest of us) and the psychological nature of how they process this makes them susceptible to ever-more conspiracy thinking.
It legitimately doesn't help that some conspiracies turn out to be real. (MK Ultra being the one that famously springs to mind.)
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