I think you are confusing “normal human behavior” with what you are terming “the conservative model.” Most people are apolitical - before, during and after the “liberal indoctrination” of the public schools. Most people do not vote based on issues at all. We often wish they did, but they don’t, and political consultants will never admit that the vast majority don’t care about issues and don’t pay any attention. That’s how Alvin Greene got elected.
Yet, when asked to self identify their own leanings, conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1, so the indoctrination appears to need a little fine-tuning.
I’ll agree with you if you want to make a point about the failure of elected (nominal) conservatives to actually act on their professed beliefs - because the people have voted for the right folks plenty often enough - but you sound like you’re blaming the victim.
And, yes, “the same things were going on” sixty years ago - and a thousand years ago. There is nothing new under the sun, and today is not the end of history.
No, actually, I’m making the case that ordinary people failed to take any measures to protect their own best interests against the surreptitious incursions of the liberals, in large part because education has been systematically undervalued, and most people were content to let liberals conduct their “silliness” over in the schools, content, like sheeple, in the false belief that liberals couldn’t do much harm there. Now we see just how wrong we all were.