Jay Cee games were propaganda all this time masquerading as a video game.
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I wouldn't put a time limitation on propaganda. At the very least, you should recognize the strict philosophical perspectives that some games may take in their story, but many games don't do this. The worst thing they may do is effectively swim in the ether of a perspective.
Stardew Valley is awesome as a farming game, and is clearly swimming in the Left-wing moral ether, but it doesn't take any hard political or philosophical stances.
As such, it doesn't need to be aggressively opposed as propaganda. It's just coming from a developer who is immersed in that perspective already, but isn't building a game around the philosophy.
Meanwhile, you can bet your ass that "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is absolutely Leftist propaganda, and is a good example why you don't put a time limit on propaganda. In fact, it might be important to double-check the stuff you think isn't propaganda that you grew up with.
It's just that when you're still fighting the uphill battle, the propaganda has to be genuinely entertaining/tell a good story/be a bit subtle or understated.
Once you've won, well, you can be bludgeony about it, to make sure the people remember what is and is not politically correct orthodoxy.