Propaganda and public relations, in this account, are not fringe manipulation but a built-in feature of American democracy, one designed by its own architects to manage a public seen as too unruly to govern itself directly. The film traces that argument through seven chapters, opening with the early twentieth-century history of PR and propaganda, then narrowing toward specific cases: how opinion was engineered to support entry into war, and how class interests shaped which version of events reached the public. Interviews with historians and media critics anchor the case for what the film calls the elitist theory of democracy, the idea that a managing class was always meant to steer opinion rather than follow it. Archival footage and period imagery carry much of the historical material, paired with narration that connects PR's commercial origins to its use in wartime persuasion. The film's throughline is the relationship between war, propaganda, and class, treating each new chapter as evidence for how deliberately public consent has been manufactured rather than simply won.