Stop thinking in terms of products. Start thinking in terms of generating support for a war. You know, the think they keep trying and failing at, that's probably the thing to recognize here.

You are making assumptions about what i'm saying that just aren't true. Any method that has good sucesst in marketing for products will be used for everything else. They stoped MK-ULTRA not because it didn't work, they stopped it because they found something better: A/B testing.