this is true if you’re analyzing people who have already wholeheartedly and consciously accepted the ruling ideology. but when they haven’t, it kind of doesn’t apply. propaganda can entice people to disregard their rationality when they materially benefit from believing it. but it doesn’t mean rationality plays no part in it.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
just ignore that cloudflare was founded to collect data for the department of homeland security