Brainwashed electorate is a not sophisticated one.

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday October 22, 2002 18:34 by Brainwashed

or a mature one

Media pundits have been praising the Irish electorate for being ‘sophisticated’ now that they have done what the media and the owners of the media wanted all along. But most psychologists would find it strange that out of over 400,000 new voters that all but only 5000 of them voted the same way. Even allowing for the fact that many of them would have been FF, FG and Labour supporters who would vote as told without question, this level of obedience and docility is frightening. One would have to look at the fascist media in Hitler’s Germany to account for this type of result in referenda. It proves the case once again for proper funding for both sides in a referendum, the alternative is a conformist, ignorant and uninformed electorate.