"They lie. We know they’re lying, and they know we know. They don’t care that we know. The object is not persuasion, it’s humiliation—to break our wills and make us obedient subjects of the all-knowing, all-powerful state.

I might as well have stayed in China."

https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/the-purpose-of-communist-propaganda-is-to-humiliate-why-the-biden-regime-lies-about-the-border/