I suspect you get this with concentrated interests. When someone stands to benefit disproportionately from a particular social outcome, they acquire a signific

I suspect you get this with concentrated interests. When someone stands to benefit disproportionately from a particular social outcome, they acquire a significant economic interest in specializing in social manipulation toward that end, and specialization has returns to scale, allowing a small number of specialists to outmanouver large collections of less-interested individuals in shaping public opinion. Some examples of areas where we may see concentrated interests: * cryptocurrency - large holders have a financial interest in popularizing cryptocurrency as a technology and investment * corporations - large shareholders have a financial interest in promoting companies and their interests * labor unions - unionized employees have a financial interest in promoting left-wing narratives that rationalize laws that privilege unions. This includes journalists and government employees, who are almost all unionized * government employees - have an interest in promoting government spending and discrediting free market capitalists * private government contractors/consultants - this includes AML consultants and black hat technology companies that work with law enforcement agencies and governments. The same dynamic that's seen with government employees, but magnified