I'll put it here there is no reply button under your last reaction.

Thanks for the explanation I got it.

To give sort of an answer to the question you ask. Are the people brainwashing other people not to be blamed for what they are doing?
Well if they know that they are brainwashing other people (not being brainwashed themselves) and ignore it commanding other people to do evil stuff.. yes. If they didn't know because they where brainwashed themselves......I don't know.

It's hard to talk about guilty or not over things from the past. Even until now people are not aware, they are brainwashed, and the same mechanism is still in place. (maybe I am brainwashed still in certain areas that I don't know of, I always keep that in mind for what it's worth)

I guess we have to take the past as an example to explain to people, how they are still brainwashed, and ask them to maybe please make other choices.
All I can do is explain and ask. If the people that are around me that I know, they know what I mean, but still go on doing their evil stuff. I remove myself.
I've had enough of their authoritarian behavior, group think, and indirect violence.

You say//To a (very) varying degree we're (almost) all guilty. //
That's true
I know I am too paying taxes, and I don't have a say or clue what is exactly bought from that. I'll try to get around paying taxes as much as I can. But sales tax and gasoline tax, etc. looks fairly impossible. We'll see.