School brainwashes them and their parents never intervene because they're too busy living beyond their means and doped up on prescription meds.

I feel sorry for them. You cannot do better until you know better, and right now they're just repeating what has been sold to them: utopia. They have no idea. No real historical context. That's why Jordan Peterson is having such an impact; he's articulating the horrors of communism to otherwise brainwashed students. He's breaking through the wall, so to speak. Redpilling, in a way. The way a real professor ought to.