I get it. I tend towards pessimism myself, but I'm trying to hold onto hope - if not for myself or even my generation, then for humanity generally.

Sometimes I want to fancy myself very smart, but I have chosen to believe that I am not special in my ability to realize the truth. I know I wasn't born a communist, and I think that's the case for most of us here. It's true that the populace is heavily indoctrinated, and it's tempting to write them off after seeing the scope of the problem. We have our work cut out for us, but as material conditions shift, people's cognitive dissonance will become untenable. We just need to be able to point people in the right direction when the time comes.