Good upbringing, reading, and common sense can go a long way toward undoing Socialist indoctrination. Seems to me, you’ve survived the Gulag of “government education”. Congratulations.
Thanks! My upbringing wasn't the greatest but I managed to overcome both. Heck, the last time I moved I had a good three or four boxes of books I'd read since I was a teenager. And that's not counting the books I'd let people "borrow" that I never got back...