Reply #16: I think "they" are doing all they can to create an ignorant

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electorate. As long as the system produces enough educated people to provide the creativity we need, the Few benefit from the Many being functionally illiterate, easily pacified with entertainment, pseudoeducated infotainment, and easily manipulated by marketing of policies and candidates.

My personal opinion about who "they" are is that there really is a "Shadow elite" who run the show. The Shadow Elite isn't an organization like the Freemasons, an Illuminati, a Trilateral Commission, or a . It's really just a fluid organization of people with a lot of money and power, who manipulate political sycophants willing to do their will in exchange for money (Money = Power).