It's taken me many years of my adult life to realize just how much of the 19th century American history I learned in high school was really just populist nonsense. All those "robber barons", "evil corporations", culminating in the Great Depression, until FDR saved us from capitalism. All just leftist, populist rhetoric.
Yup! Ditto! It has taken 20 years to get rid of that brainwashing!