Instead of a single performance at Christmas dinner, now your crazy uncle and mine can reach the whole town 24x7x365. For some reason or another, our betters see this as an imminent threat to "democracy" -- one which cannot go unanswered.

That the same people call their payoffs to a stable of geriatric looters, in exchange for order-of-magnitude ROIs, "democracy" says all that needs to be said about the situation.