@edgarblythe,
Perhaps, but the fact an outsider who is hardly a model Republican won the GOP nomination and then defeated the Democrat's standard bearer, suggests that a fairly large segment of the working class may indeed have some idea of what's going on. What went on was their not only getting screwed by the Left, they were denigrated and looked down upon as well. Democrats never stopped to consider what the affect would be of constantly sneering at
bitter clingers to guns and the Bible Did they think of them as so truly moronic that they would not read the words in
newspapers or hear them on TV news programs?
If progressive require the working class to get behind a leftist candidate to signify an awakening, then they are going to consider them asleep for years to come.
Whether or not it's anything like brainwashing, the working class are ill disposed towards "socialism" and totally reject "communism" and even those who support their unions are not likely to view workers with a Marxist perspective.
I'm sure it's frustrating for those who wish to unite the workers of the world