The masses will fall for the propaganda unfortunately. I hated to use this but it is true.

Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses.
Adolph Hitler - Mein Kampf

..... or should we, as agnostic people already, be able to see through the bull and ignore the marketing "experts"?

Normalcy is a long way off... It doesn't matter what the politicians say...

Politicians will be

Looks like we are going to start accusing each other and indiscriminately flinging around the word “gaslighting”.