This is a feedback cycle. It's hard to become "responsible" and able to form your own opinions if you hardly ever get the chance. Too add to that, if those who

This is a feedback cycle. It's hard to become "responsible" and able to form your own opinions if you hardly ever get the chance. Too add to that, if those who do express their own, dissenting, views get pilloried for it, who is going to want to start learning to express theirs? The usual answer is the thickest skinned and the most extreme.