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Prob with social networks is that they bring vitriol to the masses, and uncover deeply-seated vulnerabilities in democracy.

Mass-democracy was well-known to be a terrible idea by many wise people in history, for the precise reasons that Twitter is revealing.

Lol, the Orville had an episode called 'Majority Rule' that is a funny take at a total democracy.

Weren't many of those speakers essentially paid propagandists for monarchs, oligarchs and strongmen?

No, they were speakers who essentially made the US Constitution into a republic instead of a mass-democracy