Draad
The Greek Philosophers describe democracy is a bad form of Government and restricted the system to provide only for educated people having a certain degree of thinking ability and intelligence,
That worries me about the so-called democratic system. The manipulators used two ways to get ahead:-
* Dictators used oratory to instill manic admiration amongst the people - in the long run not effective; and
* Manipulation of the media by the powerful elite in their campaigns - in the case of the dictators there was no media freedom - in the case of the so-called democracies in the print media and with time the total control of radio and TV news services,
However with the development of radio and YV services the print media became diluted and both radio and TV news services also started to lose their control of the air, With time the development of the internet harmed the influence of the radio and TV news services as well.
The latter was the main reason for the fall of the Communist regimes in the late 1980's and the early 1990's and also for the Arab Spring a few years ago. Governments and the Media elite find it impossible to suppress news and influence people to being their voting fodder. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to control the minds of people
I think the political elite see danger signs developing and is trying to manipulate the media to instill fear in people for what they call the collapse of all things people are used to in an effort to retain power, Is it going to work? The signs are it will not work. .