If campaigns could only tell the uncorrupted truth,
If all, or at least the vasty most of us, could see through the blandishments and manipulations, the contrivances and devices made to persuade, to trigger alarm and get us acting from fear... If only we all knew how easily our feelings and minds are managed, because of the many things we don't know, but think we do... If we could see our own susceptibilities and guard against their exploitation... But, no. I am sure it was the same in Pericles' Athens, and in the Roman Republic: that votes are... Sign in to see full entry.