I've seen it a lot too. Whenever someone brags about a polsci degree I have to prepare myself for the most dumbass ignorant takes imaginable. It's so bizarre. Even the average "I don't like to talk about politics" griller has better takes than these guys. No idea what they are "taught" in their degrees, but it seems to be based on an alternate reality with entirely different politics to our own.

Maybe they assume they "know more" because of their degree, and unlike a more tangible degree, like say, physics or art, where you can have very real proof of your improved skill, polsci students can't ever test any ideas, or experiment, and they of course, aren't going to be learning about all those "bad dictator countries" because then they might actually start getting ideas. So they get to spend 4 years or more learning a bunch of elaborate nonsense designed to basically obfuscate the fact that their political understanding is as in depth as a primary schooler's. They just use bigger words to describe it.