> Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist, ignore, or deri

> Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist, ignore, or deride the messages? Uhhh, allow me to challenge the premise here. Propaganda works (as in, it's effective in achieving its first-order purpose), and people aren't particularly great at correctly identifying propaganda: most people who do, do so mostly by chance.