Neologism coined by the sociologist and Florentine political scientist Giovanni Sartori, critical of our democratic systems in which the village, people often is limited to voting, manipulated by the propaganda of power that thumbs feelings. The people can become manipulated mass media, especially TV. In Spain this knows very well the right, Center and left. Hence the importance of taking control of the media forming of opinion as before was religion. Let's be critical
Can be considered synonymous with democracy but in reality it is 40 power; not the Government ) mass, unlearned or crowd but that does not in fact rule. It is the great defect of democracy, because it earns a majority of either legal or illegal and subjected to a large minority, especially when the village is very polarized. Democracy is not such, when the town doesn't have the free ability to discern or intellectual capacity to choose.