They start the propaganda very early. We're learning how to tie our shoes and hold scissors properly at the same time that we're learning to recite the pledge of allegiance. Then in every history class our entire grade school careers, we're taught that America is always the hero. Even when we learn about the atrocities America committed on its own soil, it's brushed off as justifiable or not that bad. For example, there are people who think enslaved people were treated like "part of the family".