Propaganda was really only one aspect of the insidious war that we are now immersed in. Most of the tools are from Psychology and it's study or the offspring of Psychology.

Another tool they use is division. "Divide and conquer".

Your entire post rings very true to my ears, and the above two quotes from your post specifically reminded me of a show (I think on PBS, but not sure) about the "Blue eyed Brown eyed" study in a third grade class. So for all the people that still insist that the governments do not experiment on it's citizenry just do a google search for Blue eyed Brown eyed Study. Here is link to the teacher. Was she working for the government, or just using a "tool" to educate?