the most overt evidence of a hegemonic ideology is a cultural value presented as natural/divinely ordained, making all non-compliant positions as profane, subversive, dishonest, or a form of insanity.

• Our leader was granted the right to rule by the one true God.
• Men were created to be the head of the household.
• Pride in the nation-state administrative unit is normal.
• Capitalism is Natural Selection.

people who parrot shit like this are walking around with a tank strapped to their back, huffing medical-grade ideology with every breath. their entire cosmology was invented and inserted into their thoughts by ubiquitous institutions over time, and requires reinforcement multiple times, daily to maintain their orthodoxy.