It sounds like a lot of people are kind of missing the mark a bit on what happened here in the US.

I mean:

Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know

No. "Propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know" is what happened first using the internet to radicalize those without the wisdom to have seen this outcome.

And Idiocracy may not be so much an optimistic look at our future as the conservatives continue to implement their policies, as it is a cynical look at the results that conservatives implementing their policies have had on our present.

And things can get so much worse.