media control and manipulation doesn't work in a democracy, redefining democracy a little perhaps!
simply giving un- or misinformed people a vote is not full democracy, methinks, and if people are allowed and encouraged to follow, observe, critique and participate more, (which is happening at a rapid rate), then politicians get away with spinning and psywarring, and the public are continually buying a pig in a poke.
an uninvolved electorate is a sign of luxury in a society, that things are going so (sink or) swimmingly in material terms that people cast but a shallow lookaround at the big wheels turning overhead.
in harder (and better informed) times, i think politicians will have to be a lot more real and accountable, cognitive dissonance is already at snapping point,recent world events making it ever more obvious how much we've been played for fools. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
oops, i meant until people... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
