Like I said, there's a difference between being manipulated, and being able to be manipulated, and NPC behavior. They're not the same thing, even though they sometimes appear the same thing.

As to the rest, I absolutely agree. Yuri Bezmenov (a former Soviet KGB operative who defected to the U.S.) gave several interviews and warnings to the West that communists were infiltrating Western countries and institutions, the most vital of which, were schools. He said that communists could completely subvert a country in 15 years, because that's how long it takes to indoctrinate a new generation through subverted schools.