"There is dumb-downing, cancel culture (I’ve been cancelled since beginning in 1972 in high school, way before the trendy terminology), forced consent, manufactured bifurcation, false balance, triangulation, perception as reality, equivocation, a host of propaganda techniques unleashed by Edward Bernays and Goebbels, and the ugly quartet of Infantilization-McDonaldization–Walmartization-Disneyfication:"
This certainly explains why it's so easy for the duopoly and the corporate media to dupe the vast majority of the citizens to swallow the lies of the two major parties. You can't have critical thinking skills if you don't already have functional literacy.
I winced though that the author had a sentence with "if... than."