All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can't maintain a quality of life at all. I'm not saying they aren't susceptible to propaganda. I'm saying that propaganda often falls apart when you have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.
Young people are using AI because they want the shortcuts to the goal society said they need to achieve.
Pretty much all of the stuff you talk about is stuff a smaller subset of the population fall for. You went through and described a bunch of MAGA voting as if the vast majority of higher education graduates fall into this category.
In point of fact it's been proven repeatedly that more often than not the reason Conservatives have been trying desperately to fight against higher education and education in general is because they get pushback from educated people more often, even after feeding them a steady diet of religion, conservative propaganda, and racism.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point.
It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There's more too it than "we convince them to vote against their own best interest".