''Propaganda does not deceive people; it simply helps them deceive themselves.'' (Eric Hoffer). Propaganda is a broad approach to persuasion for or against something. Every day you are exposed to some piece of propaganda, it could be an advertisement, or something you heard on the news, or maybe something you saw on Facebook. Another way countries around the world use propaganda is in times of war. The use of propaganda in wartime is unnecessary because it leads to prejudice, mistrust and hostility. Propaganda has been around for a long time and we were not the first to use it, for example Adolf Hitler used propaganda to convince the Germans that the Jews were to blame and that getting rid of them would make everything better. The beginning of propaganda in the United States occurred during the First World War. Propaganda during World War I was used to persuade people to join the army, as in the "I want you" poster featuring Uncle Sam. Propaganda was then used in the 1920s to advertise all the new things that came out such as TVs, cars and household appliances. By the 1920s the country was stabilizing and companies were creating new appliances, people were now dealing with credit cards. There were all these new things you could do, new music to listen to, new places to go. Propaganda was everywhere to convince you what to do and why. There were billboards all over the city: streets, building benches, sidewalks. Propaganda has increased over the years, today we see propaganda even in more places like the Internet. The Internet is a great target for propaganda since people spend so much time on it. Propaganda is great when it comes to advertising, but then it becomes more serious. Propaganda then moves from what... to the middle of the paper... and these are not democratic principles. A war can be won without propaganda, and a war can be won without discrimination and harassment against any race. /group. A war can be won without violating human rights, thus generating hostility. A war can be won without violating democratic principles, which leads to distrust in one's government. The government should not use false information to convince us that attacking a country is okay, if it deserves to be attacked then false information (propaganda) should not be appropriate. A war is a life that is taken away, a son who returns home hoping that his dead one is not dead. Wars are extreme and should not be run by false information. Using propaganda on a product is tricking you into spending your money on something that is not advertised, but using propaganda during war is tricking you into being killed or killing.