&gt; Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.<p>What it does is make people whose views fall out of that bubble feel disenfranchised. This is no small part of the Trump phenomenon.<p>I was watching a documentary about South American politics yesterday  and there was a globalist establishment candidate running against one that was a protectionist populist. It was strange to see that the globalist was on the right and the protectionist was on the left and that is exactly the opposite of what we are seeing in the US election this year. After decades of people on the left lamenting that working class Republicans don&#x27;t vote in their own interest the left is in a panic now because they are.<p>No one saw this coming and the media lock down is the reason why. When it&#x27;s easy to smear anyone who does not take a globalist position as a racist that part of political discourse goes underground until it pops up in the voting booth.