Is this a joke or is it more r/neoliberal leakage?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#Managed_democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum,_1971
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
• BBC: [Princeton] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy