Our Managed Democracy

TruthDig by Chalmers Johnson | May. 26, 2008 (Opinion)

The genius of our inverted totalitarian system "lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual. ... A demotion in the status and stature of the 'sovereign people' to patient subjects is symptomatic of systemic change, from democracy as a method of 'popularizing' power to democracy as a brand name ... Full Story »

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by Gary Holcomb - Oct. 1, 2008

This is about a book describing the opinions of the author. I quote from the article: The subordinate task of managed democracy is to keep the citizenry preoccupied with peripheral and/or private conditions of human life so that they fail to focus on the widespread corruption and betrayal of the public trust. That sounds rather accurate to me. The rest of the article was also rational and worth the ones time.