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It really is not beyond the reach of a motivated and curious 13 year old to have an informed opinion on (geo)politics.

You don't gave to be particularly motivated to get predigested opinions from influencers. There's too damn many boys and young men echoing how the "Matrix" keeping them down

Sure, but that has little to do with age. To rephrase in terms of an older crowd, there’s too many damn 60+ year old men parroting what they hear on conservative AM talk radio. But there are, nevertheless, 60+ year old men with well informed and well considered opinions.

Yes.

As you noted, the first[1] batch of mass-media "influencers" were AM Radio hosts, then came cable infotainment , and now vloggers.

1. Perhaps preceded by syndicated newspaper columnists, but there was an editorial filter for those.

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