In a functioning democracy, citizens should have the primary role in affairs of state.  Not here.   And they should be informed citizens.  Not here.  World War I is a classic example.  In 1916, Wilson won on a platform of “peace without victory.” He then launched an impressive propaganda campaign to inflame a pacifist population with bitter hatred of all things German, fortified with fabrications about Hun atrocities concocted by the British “Ministry of Information”; Orwellism was alive and well long before Orwell.  It was highly successful.  It wasn’t the first such occasion, nor the last.  State propaganda remains highly effective, everywhere we turn, reinforced by the loyal media and intellectual class. More

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