Yes, the State and the FCC-controlled media get away with so much murder, basically, because most human beings have been brutalized into not even utilizing their uniquely human capacity for rational thought except when they have to (otherwise, it threatens social "reality").
These Nazis had many interesting things to say. You've probably heard this one:
"Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a communist dictatorship...That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Goering, in his prison cell in Nuremberg, 1946.