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Is having correct political beliefs important to you? Because it seems like you have a serious deficiency there that, since you are aware of, you may be able to correct. For instance, exposing yourself to lots of high-quality arguments from both sides might help.
But we have no theory of correct political beliefs, so you might be kind of helpless here.
They used to be more important that they are now.
I didn't intend to imply that I have avoided good arguments in favour of poor propaganda. I think I have heard most of the good arguments too (and the stupidity of the poor arguments is more apparent when compared to the good ones). I have only described the effect which propaganda has on me. This effect is irrational, since it activates the stupidity reversing reflex, so I try to avoid it; I wanted to point out that using propaganda as a mind hack may work differently for different people.