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The problem was the big cities that made local political involvement impossible. That's where the newspapers were sold and that's who could be convinced to politically agitate for things of which they were completely ignorant. Hence women's sufferage.
Today is far worse by comparison because *most people still trust the media* despite it being totally incoherent. They will write an article arguing that we need to actively fight to eliminate "rape culture" in the West and, in the same piece, argue *for* importing people from an actual rape culture, because "all cultures are equal". At least, back in the day, you'd have a coherent narrative, even though you had to pick your bias.
Edit: on further consideration, even assuming that media today has the same cultural influence it did back then, I still think it's better to have two polar biases controlling media than having one orthodox bias controlling both sides because, with two, people can still pick which reality they prefer and support it. Neither are correct but at least the worst one is rejected.
With a single acceptable bias, voting does not matter. We saw this during the Lockdowns. Trump proposed injecting everyone with a radical, untested medical treatment and, even though they say they hate him with a passion, the Left jumped right on board simply because that was the orthodox bias. We did this obviously stupid thing because it's what the corpo/media/world government wanted, not because it was what any of *us* wanted.
If we'd had the "lock grandma in the attic with an IV drip of Covid Cure" party and the "this is a Chinese bioweapon and we need to nuke them" party, at least we'd have a choice, even if it's not a good one.