"Well the post-feudal hegemonic order made open communism impossible and authoritarian communism inevitable".

I've been using this talking point in conversation, followed by supporting information, with good results. Good faith people are dumbfounded.

Sadly, people have no concept of the most basic history.

Forget a critical analysis of why things happened. People don't even have a string of historical events to form a worldview with. The defunding of education over generations is deliberate.

Keep thinking about the P man's leak during the 2016 campaign:

"we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly."