Luke 10:27: Democracy's Days are Numbered

Democracy is about freedom, and freedom only exists where there is truth. As this article says, "You can’t explain the truth to people who won’t listen, and you can’t expose the truth to people who refuse to see it." My conclusion? Democracy's days are numbered

‘The Matrix Resurrections’ captures the real crisis of our post-truth era
Earlier “Matrix’ films were more abstract. This one is about the way we live now.
Within the film, the new Matrix design controls and enslaves us through emotional manipulation. The villain explains: “Here’s the thing about feelings: they’re so much easier to control than facts.” We’re told that people will reject facts, will reject objective reality, if they are emotionally connected with their provably false world. If I didn’t know better, I’d accuse Wachowski and her co-writers of plagiarizing Glenn Youngkin’s campaign strategy to make Virginians afraid of critical race theory.

This is a neat update of the central conceit of the original films. In the original trilogy, “everything begins with choice” — or so Morpheus insists in “The Matrix Reloaded.” According to this line of thinking, people had to be free to choose how to look, how to fight, who to love and whether to accept the truth. The machines worked to undermine these choices, but the movies offered at least the hope that knowing the real state of things could set people free.
This new movie, by contrast, holds out no such hope, telling us from its opening scene that choice is an illusion. A few fights later, the new Morpheus (now played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is presented with a choice and says “that’s no choice at all,” a line he’ll repeat throughout the movie that inverts Morpheus’s past beliefs. In this Matrix, people have been shown reality: The whole story of the original Matrix movies is presented as a video game in the world of this film, which means everybody has access to the truth. But most people reject that truth and stay in fantasyland, just as many viewers will surely find this film’s critical references to its predecessors tedious. People within its fictional constraints — like admirers of the Wachowskis’s earlier fictions who reject their later developments — choose to believe the lie because they’re emotionally invested in it, not because they haven’t been exposed to the truth.
And it’s not clear that there’s anything anybody can do about it. When faced with the possibility that heroes will start changing the new Matrix and exposing the truth, the villain responds with a shrug. The machines are confident that people are so attached to the deceptions of the Matrix that they’ll stay connected to it, no matter how fake it is revealed to be. The first Matrix ended with the comforting bedtime story that Superman-Jesus would free the world. This one explores the knottier problem of the people themselves not wanting to be saved.
I found that answer downright chilling, but accurate. Spend time trying to get someone to “unplug” from Fox News or vaccine misinformation on Facebook, and you’ll quickly realize that you can’t judo chop them into reality. You can’t smash all their screens. You can’t explain the truth to people who won’t listen, and you can’t expose the truth to people who refuse to see it.