Dave Smith contends that government institutions and corporate media manipulate public discourse through manufactured culture wars to distract from issues of class and government power.

“I think that's a huge thing okay slow down so there is a the the Occupy Wall Street is this movement that rightwing and leftwing can get it was certainly more leftwing than rightwing but the message of it was we are the 99% and we're getting robbed by the and we're getting robbed by the”

Media outlets are incentivized to present distorted, salacious, and extreme narratives to trigger emotional reactions from their audience rather than providing neutral, factual information.

“If you think about the tabloid press in our country to come up with ever more salacious stories, salacious headlines because you know that that will generate clicks, it will generate engagement because what you're doing is not actually giving people information.”

The American media and elite institutions have failed to address the abnormal nature of the Trump era, choosing instead to normalize his behavior.

“The problem is is a lot of these people are not just cowards, they actually agree with Trump. I think a lot of these people in the elite were waiting for someone like Trump to come and bash minorities and yes, cut their taxes and deregulate their industries. But a lot of them think wokeness went too”

Seamus Coughlin claims that media institutions are predominantly controlled by individuals who oppose Western values and utilize propaganda.

“Now, unfortunately, media is almost entirely dominated by people who hate our way of life and have been chipping away at it for decades through their propaganda.”

The American public is being targeted by a multi-decade propaganda campaign designed to promote the left's ideology.

“You have been the experiment of a multi-decade long propaganda war in this country. And the left now is freaking out.”