You might say, but Bro, now is different, they have such mass control over media.

While propaganda is a useful technique for running a total state, it's not the only - war is another way to have everyone on the same page.

You can see that after WW2, their propaganda fueled total state only made it about 40 years.

We've had total propaganda in the US since the 60s, with a relenting period in the late 70s for maybe a decade.