I’ve always thought of it as outright propaganda. You aren’t supposed to use the same weapons as the enemy, cus then you are just as bad as them. You can’t take power when it’s available, else just as bad as them. You must remain pure, or else you’ll be corrupted. Oh and off course, the lower of good always triumphs.

It’s all propaganda to.mantaim existing power structures by funneling resistance into the least effect strategies, and it works… it works really fucking well. Its a practical explanation for why leftists groups constantly eat their own. And it’s all simplistic TV and movie tropes, but they’ve been around a long time and there is deep exposure from a very early age.