It seems to me that once you remove the possibility of a whole range of choices (notably those very various ones labelled 'socialism) and allow large-scale manipulation of the mugs by interested parties, especially by their control of the media and the accepted political parties in favour of the status quo, you have destroyed any meaningful democracy and people get bored out of their minds with the whole business, unless, to keep them interested, you build up huge hatreds between groups through which they can express their frustrations - roughly the state you have reached in the USA, I think. The likely future would seem to be splitting up the country, civil war or some sort of nazi-style tyranny.