Rudolf Augstein, the founder of Germany's most prominent and most independent political magazine "Der Spiegel" (The Mirror) once said:
"Es kommt nicht so sehr darauf an, dass die Demokratie nach ihrer urspruenglichen Idee funktioniert, sondern dass sie von der Bevoelkerung als funktionierend empfunden wird."
"It doesn't mainly matter whether democracy functions according to its original idea, but whether the people perceive it as functioning."
So... it is all a question or marketing. Which is just another term for "systematic lies." The point is not to make democratic policy, but to get the folks out there to believe that they live in a democracyand that all is good. The "Freedom Commission on Mental Health" comes to mind again. Surely they will invent a democracy pill some day. Any critical thoughts about the government? A friendly officer will come with a piece of paper that requires you to pop a pill to cure you from this abnormality. Do you take the blue or the red one?
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