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I think that's a little unfair.
It is only in the last few years- the internet years- where people have had access to the information. Information we never really had access to, and only a small group until then, in control to decide the information the public had.

Up until then, we had a naive trust we put in our politicians, media etc...

So equal partner in crime? - gullible maybe, not criminal.

i.e., what goes around comes around?