I'm actually not this, but it is quite specific and telling that you have this American boogieman in your mind. I don't even know any Americans like this... most of them I think died by the early 2000s.

I do have a somewhat clear understanding of living under single-party rule and blanketed by state-controlled media in Vietnam, and can compare and contrast that to the liberal free market of information which you are free to label "capitalist propaganda" in the West. The difference of course is that it's not actually propaganda when it's chaotic and not organized by a state organ - in the capitalist case, it's just advertising. The difference is measured in menace and the threat of personal violence.