It all looks like a cargo cult perversion of sophistry to me.

Some pompous intellectual once dazzled them with some triple syllable words, and now they go around aping the same noises thinking they have some mystical power to make them equally persuasive. Even without having a clue about their proper use, familiarity alone still elicits starry eyed applause from their fellow ignoramuses, so they all gather together to continue chanting their magic makeclever words to each other.