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That mainstream media outlets filled with "former" intelligence agents completely control american discourse.

• drewcoo 3y ago
  This times a big number. And because of the increased saturation of the MSM with "former" three letter agency staff, we also see today's liberals as staunch defenders of the same agencies they used to harshly question. That's a huge shift and I think it's attributable mostly to needing to do damage control post-Snowden.
  • actionfromafar 3y ago
    Even if there was a "cabal" of string pullers, don't you think there are more direct reasons in that case? Such secret networks, to the extent they exist, generally value stability. Chaos is dangerous to the powers that be. If these groups felt threatened by leftists and liberals rocking the boat, don't you make the mistake of what they feel threatened of. It's not primarily the ideology, it's the rocking of the boat. If the right is now rocking the status quo, don't you think that is also threatening? Somewhere mixed in here are also (probably a huge majority) of bureaucrats, for better or worse, just doing their jobs.
  • whimsicalism 3y ago
    I think it is more attributable to reformed alliances in the wake of Trump and conservative populism. Neocon figures realized they couldn’t rely on popular Republican support for intervention, so they started making alliances with liberals who had shown willingness to be swayed.