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Democracy is rule by the class of people who control public opinion—by the puppeteers—not rule by the people.
by legalcorrection 5y ago
Democracy is rule by the class of people who control public opinion—by the puppeteers—not rule by the people.
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- TheCoelacanth 5y agoWhat's the preferable alternative? It's not perfect, but democracy is undeniably better at serving the interests of average people than any other alternative that I'm aware of ever being tried on a large scale.
- legalcorrection 5y agoThe Chinese government has been incredible for the Chinese people (not all of them, but most of them). Democracy with much more limited suffrage is probably more appropriate for the Western man, but we are ideologically closed to that option.
- oldsecondhand 5y ago> The Chinese government has been incredible for the Chinese people By what metric?
- tshaddox 5y agoI’m a different commenter, but if I had to guess I’d say primarily by the metric of starvation.
- aeternum 5y agoThis can be true but also better than all other alternatives.
- swagasaurus-rex 5y agoDemocracy can also change things by popular vote. Something top down forms of government prefer to ignore.
- avgcorrection 5y agoAn inaccuracy. The important propaganda is aimed at the 10–20% of the population that has a stake and an impact on politics. Patrons of outlets like The New York Times. That’s most of what media critics like Chomsky has been writing about for half a century. Most of the population of liberal democracies (or at least in the US) have very little influence on politics. To the point where they are not being propagandized against as much as they are kept distracted with less “serious” things than opinion pieces about killing babies in incubators.