And that is the vast majority of people - pawns is a generous description. I read somewhere that most people dont have the mental capacity and/or the desire to make the considerable effort to understand the manipulation, who's doing it, and why. Telling them just makes them think you're lost your mind. Therefore, it is only possible to place the evidence in front of them in the plainest possible way.

To put it most succinctly, democracy empowers the manipulative and establishes a society of lies.