I keep on reading this. https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

They are not brainwashed. They have no agency. They choose to believe what is comforting because they don't have the option to live in a country that does what is right.

Those people are far away. In a way it is absurd to worry about what you can't control. We need to do what gives us power. When we, the proletariet have power, this cynicism about humanity fades.