A lot of pundits don’t seem to get it. Maybe they’re afraid to speak out against the controlling class. I don’t know.
Fear of losing your job... Greed for career advancement...
The left has so stacked the deck in the worlds of media, academia and “climate science” (to use a most illustrative example) that if you want to move up, you’d better repeat the party line. If you don’t want to get kicked out, you’d better repeat the party line.
Want some grant money for a “climate science study”? You had BETTER repeat the party line, or you not only get zero money but you could get kicked out the door of whatever institution you are in.
This dynamic is most easily seen in “climate science” where the left is working feverishly to shut down any debate. But it’s much more general throughout the Western World, of course, and comes into play in a thousand spheres of life.