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You could extend your view by saying the majority who do not think deeply about the hazards of authority are seduced by the promise of protection and redistribution from statist politicians, whether the misguidedly sincere or the manipulatively insincere. Majority democracy allows the tyranny of the majority’s belief that they will receive more from redistribution than they will personally contribute to manifest itself as an unjust redistributive authoritarian system. The unthinking majority does not need a lot of help or conditioning to choose a redistributive system. Individuals who are capable of accumulating great wealth by providing services that are freely chosen in the free market are willing to use their skills and wealth to turn lemons into lemonade for themselves. If they don’t then they will become a milking cow for every individual who would like a little unearned loot, and there’s no shortage of those. So yes, they maneuver the sheep, and some of them become cynical full time professionals at it. Fundamentally the sheep’s mindset leaves them with three choices, become a slave to the sheep, educate the sheep (and wind up like Jesus Christ), or become the masters of the sheep and keep them docile on the farm, basically feeding them with their own resources while skimming off a little something for themselves. And since this game is already in play why not up the ante and do all the stuff Yoza wrote about? It is the responsibility of each individual to do their own thinking and see what makes the world around them tick. If they don’t do this they can never be free. So if you walk around all nice and woolly and bleating all the time of course some benevolent or not so benevolent sheepherder is going to take you in. Usually these sheepherders are OK with a bag of wool but every now and then they get a hankering for mutton……