It's a lot tougher, I think, to come to independent opinions on matters, and easier to just parrot whatever your "leader" says about a thing.
Climate Change opinions are excellent examples of this. If any of us try to read even the technical summaries, it rapidly gets confusing, in my view. It takes a lot of work, and that's one issue, and the effort might well leave you simply uncertain about the threat of it, and what is to be done about it.