What you’re basically arguing is that societal progression is brainwashing liberalism into children. Which is kinda funny when you put it into the context of history. You realize that the Founding Fathers were radical liberals, right? Liberalism is about looking forward. Sometimes it leads to an idiotic end but mostly, it means we trudge along and progress as a society at large. We realize that those people our parents demonized aren’t actually demons and we pass that to the next generation. Then that generation takes our demons and does the same. It’s literally the template of western civilization for the past 500 years. Artists and academics have ALWAYS been liberal because they either want to imagine the best of humanity (artists) or they see the errors of the past and want to correct them (academics). So, yeah. Damn those liberals infesting our institutions. If only they’d stop doing that, we’d still be part of the Commonwealth.