yes - it's called history and not being blind to the forest over the trees. you can literally look back to the beginning of this country and see policies that were double speak. the revolutionary war itself was essentially theater for distracting poor people from the lucre of the wealthy[1]. we know this because that is the work of historians - to unearth the truth in retrospect. there are direct quotes from "founding fathers" about the intent of the war. it's also why, for example, native americans and slaves fought on the side of the british (both were promised freedom).

[1] howard zinn's people's history of the united states