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the reverse Dullesification of the capital class and the MIC, these fools don’t make the kool aid but they do drink it by the gallon
I've been searching for a word to describe this exact phenomenon. These people are children of the Cold War, and all the propaganda lives in their head, but none of the underlying politics that the propaganda was masking. They're reacting to the shadows of their predecessors.
In his biography, William Herst (newspaper mogul) talked about this exact phenomena within newspapers and editorial staff. Basically, people who believed the lies you told would come work for the newspaper and within a generation the entire newspaper wouldn't even know they were telling lies, which (according to him) was incredibly dangerous because then you aren't controlling the narrative, the narrative is controlling you and you are unable to adapt and change the narrative to suit the market.
He basically said most of his job was trying to get his editorial staff to understand that they were shaping a changing narrative, not reporting truth (because he believed getting actual truth is borderline impossible, therefore not the job of a newspaper).