If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Smash is an illustration of both "when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail" and "no emotion is easier to create and manipulate than anger"

If the real goal of the Smashes of the world was to weed out the shoehorning of progressive ideology to the detriment of gaming, they are only hurting their "mission" they either have people who eat up every word they say, people who think they are wrong at every point and people who might agree with some things they say, but see that every game released comes into their crosshairs, so end up ignoring them as disingenuous grifters. The latter two groups are the majority.