> Think of steve bannon's quote "politics is downstream of culture".

I'm going to be honest: if you think Steve Bannon is a thought leader, I don't think we'd agree on pretty much anything.

> formal rank of the speaker is less important than that the signal comes from the socially legitimate tribe whose approval, language, and standard the subject is a member.

You're claiming that a random stranger on an internet forum has as much social power as the literal monarch of a country. That's absurd, no matter how much fancy language you use to try to justify it.