Watched it with my kiddos, if it’s propaganda, its awful propaganda. The mayor is so inept that she can’t do anything but make a statue for her pet chicken. She is also a part of a dynasty of mayors that suspiciously look like the antagonist (her family is all black/Indian though so stolen identity.) The dogs come to save the day from the incompetence of everyone, akin to real life and people who need rescuing. Even then, they sometimes make it worst and it takes another dog to save them. Not sure of the modern versions, but the early ones were more comic book shenanigans than modern propaganda.