What influences party leadership then? They still depend on the propagandists -- journalists and academics -- to set the terms of debate.
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Replying to @primalpoly
It's different on left and right. Academics and MSM on left. Think tanks, talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, etc. on right.
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Your narrative is basically the Breitbart right-Chomsky one. Elite liberal institutions create false consciousness and manufacture consent.
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But it doesn't work. Academia are beside themselves with impotence. Can't penetrate the bubble of our rulers.
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But they already successfully brainwashed the Center-Left rulers decades ago on most social, moral, economic, and intellectual issues.
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Replying to @primalpoly
You may have noticed that a populist nationalist is in the WH and Congress is run by the right of the GOP.
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You're under-estimating how narrow the Overton window is for both DNC and GOP, compared to what's known about human nature & society.
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This is a discussion best had offline sometime. Quite complicated!
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