The institutions that at least used to have sort of a baseline goal and purpose they had to fill even if there's political bias involved, everyone distrust those institutions now for absolutely good reason. And what that also means is it's very easy when an institution fails to immediately attribute it to this sort of interleak cult status. Is it failure or is it malice? I've said many times that I tried to attribute as much as I can to stupidity rather than malice.

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