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I think the most effective propaganda message in the United States has convinced most subjects that they are subversive rebel free-thinkers with exclusive access to secret knowledge. (hexbear.net)

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The "secret knowledge" being whatever they think they know that the "sheeple/npcs/bots/libs/conservatives/commies" don't.

It's a hell of a trick: society-wide Main Character Syndrome.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It is possible for leftists to fall into a Main Character Syndrome trap too. That said, at the least there's a strong subtext to leftist theory that individuals matter, but they are not for any reason above the community no matter their pretenses of exceptionalism.

Also, like how a lot of fundies claim they are "not religious" and "just have a personal relationship with God," lots of libs and chuds have pretenses of being "neutral" or for that matter "nonpolitical" which generally isn't an illusion most leftists believe in.