• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Considering its function is to protect the establishment, I question the characterization of its being overrated.

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      1 year ago

      That’s mostly true, but some people who aren’t generally that pro-establishment themselves still see it as inherently trustworthy and politically left of center even though it’s neither. I blame MSM being an invariably pro-establishment circlejerk.

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        1 year ago

        Right. I am only adding that its efficacy would diminish if it represented itself as pro-establishment.

        Those who understand its function as pro-establishment, and those who are not concerned, are the two groups that are least consequential.

        It is third, which you mentioned, who are most relevant, the ones who may be most easily influenced toward an effect that is substantial overall