The People Who Control Your Mind: A Look At Minority Rule In America Alexis de Tocqueville discussed how he believed that majority rules in the United States. He writes about how the majority in America has control over the opinions of the masses and how people do not think for themselves. The latter part of that is true. The masses do not form many of their own opinions but these opinions are not given to …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 522 total…democratic society working in America. That ideal democratic society is just not present today. The United States today is run by a small number of very powerful people. These people's opinions are taken as dogma and are spread by the media throughout the country. Freedom of thought is a holy thing. Americans have to free themselves from media influence, corporate power, and the persuasion of religious pundits in order to think and vote for themselves.