>>838859at least in burger political discourse a huge amount of people are idealists who have no real conception of history or context and all there political knowledge comes from a mix of pop culture, aesthetics and vibes. For a while occupy wall st. and guy fawkes masks was the images of "radical leftism" these people were constantly seeing on the screen. I actually think the Guy Fawkes mask itself is kind of a neat metaphor for this pop culture-spectacle-vibes based worldview since actual ball knowers will know the guy was a reactionary monarchist while the idealists just see that shit in memes and movies and just assume it means government bad without any further research or investigation.
tldr: many burgerians use pop culture to analyze real world politics and not the other way around