Reply #114: Do You Imagine, Ma'am, The People In Front Of the Podium Are All the Audience?

[The Magistrate]

Regardless of controls, the audiences for political speeches are made up of the politician's supporters, and will already share feelings of identification with him or her. The real audience is the mass television audience, that will see only selected snippets, and react to things like the set of the body and expressions of the face even more than the words.

That you have backed off from the claim of malice regarding Party structures is worth something, at least. But the fact remains that the Party lacked resources to do a proper job of rebuilding them in the period between the two Presidential elections, even had its leaders had a better strategic vision and seen through the limits of conventional understandings current in such matters.