>>511113006Democracy only lost its edge because the populace became fat on modern day bread and circus.
Professional sports used to pay middling wages and they'd pick up a second factory job to make ends meet. It was mostly collegiate.
Until we had Hollywood and this massive propaganda industry of billions of dollars. That's what the power of the masses can do.
Hollywood. People could funnel that money back into their communities and we did back in the 40s and 50s, the rich here in the USA used to pay 90% tax and feared the working man.
Then they gave us our television shows and ever since we all started living in make believe fantasies and funneling our money entirely into Hollywood and entertainment companies instead of local issues.
Democracy only works when democracy itself is in vogue. When it's cool to be politically active and have worker unions with high citizen trust because everybody knows each other.
Television and the highway system sold our souls away.