democracy – “a collective hallucination where a highly educated class of opinion-molding tacticians are continuously at work, analyzing the social terrain and adjusting the mental scenery from which the public mind, with its limited intellect, derives its opinions”
Discussion
They kind of lost their grip on shaping the mental scenery, and you can see their attempt to regain control. "Fake news", "misinformation", etc...
Will be interesting to see if the internet can remain/regain it's open and free environment to resist. Their toolkits are undoubtedly impressive for dealing with it.