A few friends of mine, who I consider to be intelligent and well informed people campaigned for and supported Hillary Clinton, even though they disliked George Bush intensely. When I point out to them that's she's basically George Bush, especially when it comes to warmongering, they can't really even process the concept. They also can't process the concept that you can dislike and not vote for both major party candidates. They're also really afraid of being called names like "racist" or a nationalist or whatever.
Most people, really like 80% or more, can only form an opinion from a sort of group consensus mechanism rather than independent judgement. I've observed our ducks think in much the same way. They have a sort of distributed brain and decide what to do as a group rather than as individuals. There's a lot of value in group learning and opinion forming. It combines the brain power of the group, and also speeds learning. The downside is this mechanism is very easily hijacked by malignant manipulators.
The "establishment" is really entrenched in the opinions of this mass of people. The low level violent pushback against alt media personalities like Sargon is a manifestation of this. Some journalists can label him as a "hatemonger" or a racist or some other similar term, and the vast flock nods and agrees.
YouTube is home to the counterculture, and the counterculture actually is very important. The establishment is backward looking, and generally unable to create anything. The counterculture is the well spring of new ideas. That said, those ideas and people face a severe uphill battle.
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