The Theater of Managed Opposition Democratic resistance is theater—well-funded, consultant-driven spectacle that simulates opposition without risking real change. The show must go on, but the outcome was rigged from the start.
The Illusion of Democracy: Tolerance, Rigged Systems, and Authoritarian Drift What looks like democracy is often just theater. Carefully staged, cynically funded, and collapsing under the weight of its own rigging. It’s not broken. It’s built this way.