It’s perhaps worse than that. My students (18-22) have no concept of what “socialism” or “communism” or “totalitarianism” is because they’ve never seen it-—even on TV-—in their lifetimes.
My 17 year old’s comment about the “snitch” story on Fox News yesterday was “They can’t do that! What about the 1st Amendment? Mom, he’s acting like a dictator!” (all shouted I might add and my ears are still ringing)
Thank GOD he likes history.