If all, or at least the vasty most of us, could see through the blandishments and manipulations, the contrivances and devices made to persuade, designed to trip alarms and get us acting from fear instead of fact... If only we all knew how easily our feelings and minds are managed, because of the many things we don't know, but think we do... If we could see our own susceptibilities and guard against their exploitation...
But, no.
I am sure it was the same in Pericles' Athens, and in the Roman Republic: that votes are to be gotten by whatever means, vote and voter are nothing sacrosanct: the process has little truth in it, except that we are, in the end, stuck with reality.
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