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I call it "trickle down rhetoric."
Essentially, people with more wealth are looked up to by people with less wealth. When a wealthy person says something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree with them. When the slightly-less-wealthy peers say something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree as well.
This trend keeps happening until you reach the bottom of the barrel, where just about everyone who can't think for themselves (most people) are just parroting ideas that have been put there by those with more power and influence.
It's how we can convince the working class to vote for Hillary, Trump, and Biden over Bernie.
I thought this was commonly known to be how human society works. Sometimes with just power and not literal wealth, but the same concept.
it's also how you become well-liked/popular. you parrot stuff that other popular people say.
Well, it's not common enough!
I don't think most people realize how most people are being herded like farm animals. They certainly don't show it in their actions.
you’re literally parroting the “wake up sheeple” trope
Yeah, we've been conditioned to scoff at it so we don't recognize it when we see it.
It's how people trust the suits on tv that have been wrong about everything, but sure, let's let the establishment run the opposition to the president, see, it wasn't their fault! It's not like the voters made it clear they wouldn't vote for their sell out. But since the suits said it was bigotry it's ok to let the same people continue to run the opposition.