So that's one position to take in the discussion of how much responsibility falls on voters when the various types of consent manufacturing are in play. In the

So that's one position to take in the discussion of how much responsibility falls on voters when the various types of consent manufacturing are in play. In theory, with hypothetical fully informed voters, everyone would agree with your stated position. But when you have massive misinformation campaigns aimed at voters and various attempts at swaying public opinion with psychological tricks (which we know will change some X% of voters' behaviour) I don't feel like it is that clear. Clearly some of the responsibility is lifted from the individual voters and put on those manipulating them isn't it? Individuals have no control over how susceptible they are to manipulation. If the majority of people want X to keep happening but are tricked into voting for Y because they think they are voting for X, I don't place the responsibility for this error entirely on the voters. I place a lot of on those "insiders" and "corporate juggernauts" doing the manipulation.