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Comment by ajbonkoski

This a load of nonsense FUD. It's all sensationalism in response to the current political climate. He'd be singing a completely different song at the height of Obama's presidency.

Even the language and word choices are FUD: "elites". Conspiracy theories work because people respond more viscerally to fear and uncertainty than to optimism.

Even more amusing: his argument is actually that (1) we basically didn't have a democracy because the "elites" ran the show, then (2) technology made the US more democratic, so (3) democracy will fail.

What? Because things are more democratic, the democracy that we never actually had is going to fail now?

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