> Democracy works best when people are easy to manipulate through mass media This is a huge statement that seems wrong to me. Democracy works best when the pop

> Democracy works best when people are easy to manipulate through mass media This is a huge statement that seems wrong to me. Democracy works best when the population are engaged and hard to manipulate. Also the "observation that countries with the best education are authoritarian" seems wrong to me too. The data I see has the top 10 entirely filled with democracies, with Singapore as the first nondemocracy coming in at 11th place. Check the economist democracy index, the correlation between democracy and education is imperfect but strong. And those are arguments based on data. There are also arguments based on logic. Authoritarianism and education are fundamentally opposed, because authoritarians hate the teaching of things that disagree with their own specific viewpoint and suppress it.