Yeah that makes sense, I thought after posting that it isn't a fair comparison when going in blind. Not sure what it says about me or media in general these days, but I seem to never encounter anything now without knowing something about the politics of its creators so I didn't encounter it at all blind.

Wouldn't say it endorses it so much as dreams of it (or maybe longs for something like the hope it provided in the past when the ideas were new), I get that that's a very muddy perspective though.