You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Dictator (2012) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:24:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family.
- You could wiretap phones, you could torture foreign prisoners.
- You could have rigged elections.
- You could lie about why you go to war.
- You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group and no one would complain!
- I know this is hard for you Americans to imagine, but please try.
- Democracy... Democracy has hairy armpits and could lose five pounds.
- Democracy looks like a midget in a chemo wig.
[...]