fedya; I have had some experience with PSYOPS to include having played the game with live ammunition.

Certainly, communist organizations and others
(Wahabis come to mind) conspire how to control and alter our minds. Directly though, they have had very little effect. They have won few converts.

Most brainwashed people have brainwashed themselves. They simply believe that they can achieve their version of utopia (usually an incoherent vision of perfection) if the just WANT it enough. Wanting it enough has them standing on the edge of the moonbat pit.
Left to their own devices only some of them
will actually jump in. Enemy PSYOP is what
gets the rest to make the leap.

Whatever line is being pushed does not have to be rational or follow any logical train of thought. In fact, the more irrational and contradictory it is, the better. It just has to be emotional, that is all.

So the commies deluded themselves when they
thought they were micro-managing their fellow-travelers. However, they did manage to direct a mental blowtorch onto ready tinder.

Their successors follow the same pattern
because they get paid to, by one sponsor or the other. This is the only known method that produces any kind of results.

So while there are those who deserve to receive a suspended sentence (by the neck, until deceased) our vulnerability is that desire for utopia, an Earthly Paradise.
This vulnerability is much more pronounced in
affluent societies than is poverty-stricken ones. People who have to scramble for survival must necessarily face reality head-on. Only those that have a lot can fantasize
about a pain-free, consequence-free existence.

So while conspiracy exists, what the conspirators bring about is not something they actually control. Keeps things plumb interesting.