Yes this is all controlled, I remember 35 years ago the enemy were the communists so people hated communists, now the enemy is Islam so people hate Islam. In my country there are very few muslims so there is no fear or hatred against them but the hate against communists I lived that one, and the funny thing is that since Islam is so far away in this part they still rattle the communist threat. And the thing that amazes me is that now you have someone like Putin who is a totalitarian fascist and yet he is idolized by the right as one of them and the left also likes him because they think he is a communist, because he actually was one 30 years ago.
Just today I saw a leading local preacher condemning anyone who votes for a coalition which is mostly center with a few leaning to the left as going against God, now I wonder why would a man of God have to get involved in politics?