This sort of recalls some themes of Freemasonry and also the theme of the book "Sapiens" which more or less says that our species invented bullshit as a device to rally large groups of people.

https://scottvern.medium.com/homo-sapiens-survived-by-inventing-disinformation-62a5476a6df3

In fairness however, just about every culture does it and at least the Freemason's bullshit has a little more science and math added to it. Stripping away all the jingoism and hype, Reagan may have been right that our Nation (despite some oblique genocidal hiccups), HAS branded a unique blend of Democracy/Capitalism that hopes to overcome racism and make the rest of the world behave. At the time I hated his deficit bloating, renewable-squelching, Bechtel-fawning, proto MAGA shit, but I can appreciate that he created a kind of Gary Cooper version of America that brought down the Soviets.