If you want to go down that route I would say the opposite [0] plays a much bigger role why some Americans can't accept that their country ain't "The best thing ever since sliced bread, #1!" [1].

In reality different people have different priorities, so no single country ever can be "the best", as that solely depends on the individual priorities.

It's also not like RT and Xinhua are making up the stuff they use to agitate against the US, like most propaganda it's usually based on at least a kernel of truth.

For example the US incarceration rate is a pretty blatant outlier, particularly among developed countries, a factual reality that clashes very harshly with the self-propagandized idea of "Country of the free". The regular "race riots" in the US, and their scale, are a clear indicator to still unresolved issues on that end.

Disregarding these as "It's only Russian/Chinese propaganda!" is exactly the kind of mindset that leaves these issues unresolved and tolerated as "normal".

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

Even if you read only American news it does not seem like a good place to live in. This is coming from an immigrant who chose the EU over the US by the way.

How's the US response to COVID-19 going?