Is the person with an opinion that isn't aligned with the establishment media the sucker for a sales pitch?

Or is the sucker for a sales pitch the person who parrots whatever the nice funny man on the TV tells him to think about any given issue?

People who think they're smarter than everyone else tend to be very gullible. It's not about TV, its about you.

If you want to be smart, don't judges technologies based on supposed virtues signalled; judge them by understanding how they work independent of how their salesmen say they work. Learn, know and understand.

Your entire world view is pretty dumb: who is signalling what I should be allied to?

That's a dumb question; and it signals that you're ripe for abuse. All you need to be sold an idea is to have it associated, by signals of virtue, with what you hate.

You're not alone. This type of gullibility is the mentality of most victims of crypto; and indeed, many scams.

80% of the crypto community is people who think they're smarter than the people scamming them -- that's the other 20%, and they're winning