There is definitely a change in propaganda. I’m old and I think over the decades it’s gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don’t even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It’s just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.
Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won’t be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says “We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too…” And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, “the cartels”, Antifa, and American pols who aren’t described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are “fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what’s right.”
There is definitely a change in propaganda. I’m old and I think over the decades it’s gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don’t even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It’s just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.
Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won’t be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says “We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too…” And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, “the cartels”, Antifa, and American pols who aren’t described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are “fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what’s right.”
Over how many decades though? 70-80’s propaganda was obscene.