>>>But I am living proof that government schooled indoctrination wears off pretty quickly. I still remember some of the scare propaganda I was subjected to, and believed at the time. And I also remember eventually outgrowing it.<<<
Same here, my friend. I grew up in the most liberal of liberal precincts in Connecticut - I even worked with Ralph Nader to help establish the first Earth Day celebrations.
The problem with scare propaganda is that it doesn’t survive the first dire prediction which doesn’t come true. I remember reading “The Population Bomb” in the early 1970s - great stuff for a teenager, on par with a good comic or an end-of-the-world movie - and when those predicted famines didn’t take place in the 1980s, I remember having a good inner laugh. In fact, those early experiences made conservative thought more attractive.
Ditto for feminism. It didn’t survive beyond the first few girlfriends.
As I’ve written before, I’m now a high school English teacher, and my observation is that the classrooms with the heaviest doses of leftist indoctrination teach students how to be cynical about leftist beliefs.
I agree with your post. A friend of mine teaches Social Studies (and no ALL teachers are NOT liberals out to poison little minds meaning they should ALWAYS be home-schooled.) What she finds is that in the current political climate, most kids have formed political opinions at home and are not as socially naive as they may have been in the 60’s. The lines have usually been drawn long before their high school and college years.
I remember this crap being shoved down my throat in school in the 70’s too. Woodsy the owl, Uncle Smiley, my teachers telling us to recycle, making terrariums, over population, the commmercial with the kid saying “parents need to stop being ‘fuelish’”, or there wouldn’t be ANY oil by the time he went to college, the whole lot. I’ve never understood how this crap has been repeated for 40 plus years and NONE of their “predictions” have come true. The biggest $hithole pollution disasters occur in countries without freedom.