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It's not 'undermining' but rather fake democracy. The new tactic in hybrid warfare is for strongmen to make dictatorship look like democracy.
Politicians have learned the art of making war in secret and tyrannizing in secret. Low observable technology goes beyond stealth airplanes.
Ordinary people are losing the political arms race against their rulers. Digital manipulation, mass surveillance and individual targeting have tipped the scales against publics that rely on traditional protest tactics like marches and rallies.
Hence protesters are adopting the tactics of the elite and forging international alliances, waging information warfare and reducing rather than amplifying their signature. One bad turn deserves another.
The one constant is reality. Duterte's fraud was primarily digital. The original paper ballots are the scam's weakness because they are real and therefore harder to change.
Wholly virtual systems are like CGI where anything is possible. Paper ballots and physical artifacts introduce an element of live action requiring an actual something. We have to step back from CGI politics and go back to live action.
