Reminds me of the Yuri Bezmenov quote. I imagine there are many of the masses that can still be convinced, but personally I don’t have the patience, oratory skills, quick wit, nor deprogramming abilities to convince those so deeply entrenched in leftist brainwashing to make much of a dent.
“Exposure to true information does not matter any more. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him concentration camps, he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.”—Yuri Bezmenov 1984, regarding communist propaganda in the United States and how to brainwash a nation
As I see it, propaganda serves not just misinformation but as a means to poison the truth, like a few drops of kerosene in a punch bowl.
The truth must not only be contradicted but discredited by the propaganda since the propaganda is but a tool, a means to the end of gaining power over others.
And that, control over others in some way, seems to be the universal currency today.