It not brainwashing, but it is conditioning.
There are tons of examples that have been used since the Catholic Church first founded the science of propaganda years ago. And it’s not a slam at the Church—they WERE the organization that created the process.
These days we often mistake intellectual laziness for brainwashed. And it’s not just a product of the left. Look for memes and repeated comments that are familiar from TV and the Internet.
I used to tell my wife that usually the people parroting propaganda with buzz words and catch phrases, never read to the end of the book.
Business Schools in America brainwash students in to thinking “free trade” is a religion where in the rest of the world they teach protectionism, and mercantilism. Our business “leaders’ are globalist brainwashed robots.
I think Rome did this with free grain and circuses/games to put the masses in a good mood
Would love to see you start a thread with that thesis.