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Imagine trying to get a large group of people to do what you want them to do. Imagine trying to enforce a set of your rules upon them. Some of the people would be negatively affected by your rules to a stronger degree than others; therefore you would have varying degrees of opposition. This is going to be difficult to do successfully. Unless you use a bit of social engineering.
This is what you do. You create the voice of your own opposition. You establish a group whose job is to oppose you. By setting up your own body of opposition (or illusion of opposition), you have moved yourself into a position of complete control.
By establishing a group who will do the fighting for the opposition, you have essentially stopped the common person from taking any action because the people now have a group that will fight for them (so they believe). The people will sit back and do nothing except support the group who they believe is fighting for them. So...what you have done is quell the opposition.
Also, by establishing a group to oppose yourself, you can now steer the people astray away from truely understanding the meaning of the battle. Each group can voice their arguments in legal terms and rhetoric that the average person doesn't fully understand. The lack of education among the common person is what allows this effect to thrive.
Another benefit you get for establishing your own opposition is the compromise effect. If you want to gain an inch against the people you should push for two inches. That way, when you settle for a 50/50 compromise, the people will be satisfied that you didn't get two inches. What you really got was 1 inch; exactly what you set out to achieve in the first place. You can see this effect happen all the time in our country. It is easily noticed when a law is proposed that sounds so ridiculously right-winged or left-winged that you can't believe some politician actually supports it.
This leads to another effect...the effect of systematic desensitization that is used to control the people. If you expose people to a bad thought or idea that they have never even dreamed would ever exist (as mentioned above), it is quite a shock. This shocking effect is strong and the people will hold stong against it. But if a politician exposes this ideology again and again, it will become old news. Because it is old news, the people's opposition will not be as strong. The psychological weapon of repitition, which is a known technique in brainwashing, is used against you and you don't even know it. Have you ever heard a song on the radio that you hated but after hearing it so many times you actually come to like it or at least tolerate it? ...same effect.
...and you wonder why we have a two-party system. ...why is it that we elect delegates to be our voices for us. ...whenever there is a problem, the politicians set up a special committee (under their own control) to fight for us. ...why is it that popular vote doesn't matter. We are watching an act, a play, upon the world stage.
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