What frustrates me the most about this is that having just a tiny smidget awareness of history and they would realize this is from an old playbook that's been used for hundreds of years by dozens of states/empires to manipulate the masses.

You might forgive the populations back then bc information was not as readily available.

But in 2024 we have internet and information for the most part is free and easily accessible. So why does it still work?!