Maybe I'm just looking at things with rose-tinted glasses, but quality of the propaganda in Western countries really has fallen dramatically. It used to be a bit more subtle, but now it's Democratic People's Republic of Korea-esque, e.g. the governments of Western countries are "democratic" (obviously, since they say so) so any questioning of the government is "anti-democratic" (= "bad").

Maybe I'm just looking at things with rose-tinted glasses, but quality of the propaganda in Western countries really has fallen dramatically. It used to be a bit more subtle, but now it's Democratic People's Republic of Koren-esque, e.g. the governments of Western countries are "democratic" (obviously, since they say so) so any questioning of the government is "anti-democratic" (= "bad").