The thing is, democracy doesn&#x27;t work on a scale as large as the United States. (By not work I mean the people are far to the left of the elite with their redistributionist policies, and that&#x27;s unacceptable to the people in power.) So either you have countries directly managing public opinion like China&#x2F;Russia, or you have countries covertly managing public opinion like the United States. Essentially, you have to choose Brave New World or 1984 if you want to manage a &quot;democracy&quot;.