that's really what the article was saying. that, yes, there's a thing, and that the powerful will work to use it to their advantage, and the swivel eyed loons _

that's really what the article was saying. that, yes, there's a thing, and that the powerful will work to use it to their advantage, and the swivel eyed loons _notice_ that and start constructing wingnut theories and reaction against it. (regardless of what the crisis says on the tin, or the response formally says on the tin, this is a thing and the wingnuts aren't... entirely wrong in noticing that there's something off about the world)