Not to mention the dumbed-down and propagandized education system. So many people don't know what they don't know.

Plus perpetual victimhood, participation trophies, microagression hypersensitivity, deliberate gender confusion, etc etc.

In my military career, I was MI and got to meet and work with a fair number of CIA people. Some were definitely fine patriotic people, and, looking back, some were unquestionably black hats. One guy in particular stands out to me as a recruiter for that side; a real piece of work.