What I mean by that is that the most often blamed problem of the Minutemen, that being its extremely decentralized structure and its dependence on a charismatic leader, can, in part, be traced to the propaganda of the pre-war U.S.
I first want to put some U.S. history just to provide context. When the United States was going through its revolution, it frequently suffered from factionalism that was only, but barely, united because of the popular cause led by charismatic men, such as George Washington. After the war, everything just became a free-for-all. When the Articles of Confederation was still "enforced," the economy became incredibly broken, the state governments couldn't provide their promised welfare for their veterans, and the states started competing against each other. It got so bad that a state nearly went to war against another state, and every state ignored the fact that Massachusetts was basically going to collapse from Shays' rebellion. Massachusetts literally had to buy mercenaries, instead of its weary and Shays-sympathetic soldiers, to stop everything. Obviously, the United States needed to revise the Articles of Confederation so that they wouldn't collapse. Eventually, they decided to replace the whole thing with The Constitution, and everything has been a bumpy, but manageable, road since.
Now, already, without the nightmare that was the U.S. in the Fallout universe, most people don't know, or don't care, about this chaotic part of early American history. Most people just know the revolution as a bloody struggle between American frontiersmen against the tyrannical British monarchy. I mean, it is that, but that oversimplifies the reality. Still, this is something that the government IN REAL LIFE promotes.
Now imagine that dystopian hellhole of the U.S. government in the Fallout world. Suddenly, George Washington went from a venerable general and first president of the U.S. to Emperor of Mankind America destined to save every patriot from the Communists. Schools start printing out propaganda like we went back in time for Yellow Journalism to be popular again! Of course the government would rid every bit of history that seems to tarnish the perfection of America.
Then the bombs dropped. Some 200 years later, more or less, people in Massachusetts start getting ideas about the history of the Minutemen. They hear and read about the history of America, the revolutionary war, and decided that they're going to embody the ideals of the revolution so they can help people, ignorant of the tsunami of problems they were about to create themselves. Then came the Minutemen, struggling with factionalism and an over-dependence on charismatic heads.