That's right, our complacency led to complicity. American exceptionalism is pushed on us at an early age. The breadbasket of America lined up to go kill Muslims. Quite a few came home maimed, disgruntled and unemployable, yet Biden is provoking WW3.If individual people can be influenced by some perceived "establishment," that's a reflection on the deficient quality of the people.
People of adequate intellectual capacity see what's going on before the spin is applied...and then they recognize the spin.
America told their children that the theocratic pilgrims were great,
that the "pioneers" who committed genocide on the indigenous people were great,
and that freedom "of" rather than "from" religion was great.
The capable saw through it as seven-year-olds.
The rest fell into line, ready to be influenced by some "establishment" of their own perception.