If I may suggest some reading material.
To be read with a non-partisan opened mind:
Propaganda- Edward Bernays, 1928
Bernays (The father of Engineered Consent) is the nephew of Sigmund Freud. He applied these manipulation techniques and became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for political and corporate manipulation of the population.
His 1928 bombshell, Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.