The people have been repeatedly smothered by the belligerence of ignorance. Not just the common ignorance, but the extraordinary ignorance.

It is like someone who walks up to another, and says, you must wear this uniform. The attempt to force one under a group umbrella. You must be part of this or that nation. You must wear this yoke, harness, saddle...

The constant attempt to gather the masses, to preach to them, to get them to align with a particular idea.

For the purpose of: forming a head, which can be haltered, given a bit, and then reined/reigned.

It amazes me, that those who feel they are superior to everyone else, behave in a manner that exposes their dependence upon everyone else.

Like the crying of an infant...

Can't lead by example. Can only suck from the teat of another.

The people don't have just one infant to deal with, but many competing infants.

Some are truly young. Some make a career out of that behavior. Some come from a blood line of professional infants.