you don't have to actively consume propaganda to understand its message. all you will accomplish is psychic damage to yourself or the successful implantation of its brainworms.

to understand its message all you have to do is exist anywhere around libs. they will parrot the message to you in bullet points whenever you stray from it. "paying attention to nazis is what gives them power", "american empire isn't real and even if it is, it's benign and good actually", "eventually the right will stop pulling us to the right if we just compromise with them in good faith", "america has a functioning democracy".

these are hegemonic discourses. the real struggle is to find media which does not actively reinforce these ideas so you can actually have space to form and hold thoughts of your own.

i know a guy who watches fox news "to understand what they're thinking." all he's accomplished in 10 years of doing this is being dumber than when he started, though more confident in "his" analysis. the delivery system is poisonous.