So a pretty impressive 89% said no to the totalitarian notion - despite all the floods of fear remorselessly being sent their way. So that left a paltry 11% in support of the idea - a pretty lonely subsection of the Twitter electorate. The relevant people at ITV presumably hadn’t quite expected this kind of result, and in response, representing the will and desires of their public - as they surely imagine their role as public broadcasters to be - they deleted the tweet and went silent. I think that shows certain things more or less in a nutshell.
And remember this was a poll for a British public tuning into mainstream morning tv, not extremists out manning barricades somewhere!
“Why aren’t the people responding like the dumb animals that they are to our brilliant manipulations?! This isn’t what’s supposed to happen. It must be that they’re so stupid that all our subtle and refined techniques are going right over their heads!”
“Yes, that’s it! The intellectual gulf between us and the masses is too big. Our excessive intelligence and sophisticated education are working against us.”
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