People like your parents (no offense to them personally as no doubt they are goodhearted folks) are suppressing their gut feeling that something fiendish is afoot and are instead inhaling the anesthetizing, hallucinogenic gas being pumped out of the propaganda channels so they can live with the fact that they’re doing nothing in the face of abominable evil. They will never awaken unless they swap the hallucinogens for fresh, clarifying oxygen.

This behavior is identical to how the “good Germans” behaved in 1930s Germany. I know I’ve quoted this elsewhere, but it applies here as well. As one interviewee confides in Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45”:

“‘Oh, things seeped through somehow, always quietly, always indirectly. So people heard rumors, and the rest they could guess. Of course, most people did not believe the stories of Jews or other opponents of the regime. It was naturally thought that such persons would all exaggerate.’

“Rumors, guesses enough to make a man know if he wanted badly to know, or at least to believe, and always involving persons who would be suspected, ‘naturally,’ of exaggerating. Goebbels’ immediate subordinate in charge of radio in the Propaganda Ministry testified at Nuremberg that he had heard of the gassing of Jews, and went to Goebbels with the report. Goebbels said it was false, ‘enemy propaganda,’ and that was the end of it.”