I think you’re referring to the strange bed partners of the working class and their bosses, which going by most media I see from Hollywood is supposed to be incompatible and almost a master-slave relationship. And I am pretty sure most people believe Hollywood
I still think you are underestimating indoctrination via Entertainment
I don't think I am.
First, the Foundry area of the country does not buy into that belief. The reason is this; they were told that they would not all lose their jobs and those that did would get better jobs for equal or higher pay and more benefits. That turned out to be a farce. The industrial sector in the Foundry was basically dissolved overnight and no one wants to fucking send lots of white collar jobs to an area they think is full of uneducated hicks. Especially when you can outsource things like call centers overseas to India for what amounts to a near slave labor force. Or China, where they have an actual slave labor force.
And what was the response when the Foundry complained to DC about their loss of jobs and homes? The media told 30-50 year old men to "learn to code, lol!" and proceeded to enrich themselves through near or literal slave labor at the cost of their countrymen. And more and more, people began to link the globalists and the media as one entity. This sort of stuff started on Fox News, but now it's basically common knowledge. Very much so during 2016, when the Media came out in full force for Clinton and afterwards launched attack after attack upon the Foundry's populist leader.
There's a reason why Star Trek and Star Wars is failing. There's a reason why the next phase of Marvel will likely fail. Because more and more, these ideological beliefs are being shoehorned in not only just at the cost of good writing, but at the expense of the large chunks of the country that they hope to defeat. But because most people in the Media, especially Hollywood, fail to grasp that the US isn't split between Republican and Democrat that can easily be reprogrammed if bombarded enough, but rather these are strong dominate cultures that act closer to a hive mind who are now feeling under attack by these same movies and TV shows.
Bombarding a kid with TV shows does work. Bombarding an adult with TV shows works less. And the Millennials are actually young enough to remember when they weren't constantly bombarded and the lessons of their elders and the culture they grew up in--which because of social and economic decisions, have disintegrated right before their eyes. There's a reason why people were flocking to old franchises. It wasn't because they didn't want to watch new things; it's because the new things weren't reaching them and because the old reminded them of a time when things were better. Part of that is rose-tinted glasses, but it is also part truth.
Hollywood tried to use those rebooted series, both to appeal to adults and their children. And instead they've produced disaster after disaster that the adults cannot stomach.
Also, don’t forget, academia both in colleges and public schooling are dominated by the Left
You've grown too old.
No one gives a shit what their teacher in public schools thought. Getting a social or cultural lesson by the teacher unless so obviously past a line is generally something kids roll their eyes at. Why? Because they already have parents who lecture them. And sure, you have kids who are so intent on being seen as following the rules that they immediately bend to authority figures, but those same kids also have parents.
The real threat was the colleges. Because in the early 2000s, the consensus among the adults was that the only way forward was to go to college. Add in a massive political and media blitz to push that and college became a sort of holy rite of passage for all young adults to experience and enjoy. Professors were put upon pedestals that was given to them by the rest of society. The children followed suit.
I don't think that is the case with Gen Z. Gen Z grew up with people going to college as normal as we all grew up going to public school. And in fact, with the abuses and flaws of those same colleges having long been discovered and discussed, many younger students are not seeing them as utopias, but rather as hoops they have to jump through. The shine is gone and Gen Z is keenly aware that if you fuck up your college courses, you've just wasted lots of money.
The universities have failed to bring the social and economical changes they promised. They will not be given that sort of glory and power for decades, possibly centuries--if ever again.
You may even get an increase in Trans-But-Not-Really’s alongside demands to increase college spending and forgive debts for the guys with useless non-STEM courses
You will get that demand, but those demands may not be accepted. Not all of Millennials are going to accept the idea that their fellows who went to college and failed should get their debts forgiven. Especially if they never went and they RL debts from raising kids or investing in their own business. And the Boomers are not going to generally help check that because of the economic damage it would do, along with Gen X. And the people in charge will be advised not to because of the massive economic damage it would do.
You might have a scheme put into motion to ease the burden or my personal favorite; deem the colleges responsible for their sketchy and shitty behavior. Of course, that would destroy most colleges across the entire country.
