I'd always heard about propaganda in countries like China but always kinda laughed it off.
But what the media and the Democrats have shown me is that propaganda fucking works. And it works really well.
They literally took a president who was the first in history to be elected supporting gay marriage and made him out to be a bigot. Was the first in 40 years to not take us to war and made him look like Hitler. Was a champion of women and racial rights his whole life and made him look like a racist and a sexist. Was the most transparent and for the American people in all of history and made him look like he was a Russian pawn hiding everything from our country.
And people bought it! They fucking fell for it. Not only that, they could see events happen before their eyes (rioting, looting, people defending their businesses and homes, etc...) and make them think peace and justice were happening.
I'm just floored by it all. I never thought we'd have so many idiots in this country that would actually buy the propaganda they were selling, but they did. Big time.
And that makes me wonder what that all means for our future as a nation.
Reading recommendation:
https://ellul.org/writings/featured-books-by-ellul/#propaganda
our government has been doing it for decades.