I'm listening to the audio book 
of C.S. Lewis "That Hideous Strength" - the 3rd book in his Space Trilogy 
One of the villainous characters 
asserts that it is easier to brainwash 
allegedly "educated" people with propaganda than it is common sense working class people:
"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda & skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football
results....He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies 
don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything."
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