Yes your average rank and file leftist, your friends, your coworkers, etc, is a victim, and it’s easy to dismiss them as being lied to.

But it’s important to understand that every leftist has some psychological impairment to allow his emotions to be exploited. At his core, the leftist is driven and motivated by rage, anger and hatred. At this point, after everything we’ve seen with the election, the hunter Biden laptop, the “insurrection”, they are willfully allowing themselves to be lied to, and even when they know it is against their own better interests (ie, immigration driving down wages). The leftist has such hatred they become willful participants in their own abuse and manipulation, as long as they erroneously believe it allows them to abuse others, the people they are told are their “enemies”

Thus it’s important to have multiple feedback systems (school, media, even churches) to validate the leftists reality. They are kept in a perpetual state of anger and petulant hatred to maintain the validity of the lies they are being told.