[chiller]

I fear you are correct, which makes countering media and academia a yuuuge task. Pendulums do swing, however.

I've wracked my pea-brain for a strategy involving a killer meme. Something like:

"Your ideas and intentions are commendable, but simply are proven not to work. Feel good but fail, or make wise choices and succeed."

[Alas Babylon!]

The pendulum may be swinging, if only a little. The next generation is slightly more conservatives than the Millennials. Not on social issues, but on the country (Go USA), economics and anti-Atheists (huge amount of Millennial Atheists).

Maybe the next ones after them will swing way right as a way to protest against their parents’ generation.