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That's part of what explains the current chan phenomena. The converse to this was dirty hippies during peak family fordism in the late 60s early 70s and later the punks. Most people in general are susceptible to propaganda, how you come up the middle is to situate your own discourse in the face of all this.

Right now, for instance, the left is more institutionalized then the right with problems of ideological capture, recuperation and an overall lack of novel or leading edge analysis. Gamergate is an interesting example because I am GREATLY sympathetic to that crowd. When Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are who are representative of legitimate liberal leftist discourse THAT'S A PROBLEM. They are nothing like the 1968ers who came before them who were, of course, outer institutional.

It's not entirely a matter of standing for nothing and falling for anything. You have to give people who want a leading edge discourse something to fall for or gravitate to. If you stick to the current inherited positional left with its institutional hegemonic framework you will continue to lose the generation. There are a few people who get it(Nina Power comes to mind) but for the most part many non right wing thinkers just back whatever the left is out of sheer discursive habit.