Throughout history, we have looked to political and governmental institutions to examine whether mind control and subliminal perception has been used amongst the general public. The CIA, form example, is one branch of government thought to use this technique in order to gain its authority over large bodies of people.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received complaints of a television station using subliminal messages in 1974. This was the first new case since the original in the 1950's. The FCC responded by issuing a public notice, which stated their official position:"We believe that the use of subliminal perception is inconsistent with the obligations of a [broadcast] licensee, and therefore we take this occasion to make clear that broadcasts employing such techniques are contrary to the public interest. Whether effective or not, such broadcasts clearly are intended to be deceptive"

In 1979 there were subliminal anti-theft messages from the music of Musak. It was shown to decrease theft (internal inventory shrinkage as well) by 37%. Now, whether this was actually due to the words in the music or to other sources no one can be sure (Subliminal Messages and Backmasking).

https://umich.edu/~onebook/pages/frames/historySet.html

years and years ago a good friend of mine who's husband worked for the DOD told me MUZAK made music for big name companies and they would put subliminal messaging in there.

I have no idea if that's true or not but most of us are workfags. Some of us work for companies that play Music from MUZAK

https://serendipstudio.org/exchange/serendipupdate/are-you-being-brainwashed-muzak

Mood Media has since acquired MUZAK and now is being implemented EVERYWHERE.

https://us.moodmedia.com/case-studies/

It's not that far of a stretch to imply they have been using this marketing strategy as political warfare