re: #10 freetoken
So much has been written about Leni Riefenstahl and propaganda that I doubt I can add anything new.
I did take a propaganda class in school, and of the few things I remember is this: to be effective, propaganda has to have enough truth in it so people do not turn if off immediately.
Or truthiness. We’ve had three decades of RW media grooming a receptive audience for ever-increasing false narratives. Now we have a president who lies as easily as he breathes, and his base accept every word as the gospel truth.