When Ilana Dayan finished broadcasting the investigation against Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, she stood outside the studio in the position of a groundbreaking journalist, and read the Prime Minister's response, during which she was accused of belonging to the extreme left camp, and of 'revealing her true face.'.
Dayan and her friends in the media felt that they were at a defining moment, and that reading the slanderous response that did not address the principles of the investigation would finally remove the mask from the Prime Minister's face, turning him into a bitter person in the eyes of the people, and a politician incapable of accepting criticism.
Here he is again, not responding substantively and only calling his attackers 'leftists.'.
But she was wrong.
She was very wrong, and her mistake joins the mistakes made by Isaac Herzog, Noni Moses, Amos Oz, Shlomo Artzi, and now also Hillary Clinton and Hollywood actor Robert De Niro.
The masses of the people are made up of stratified classes and classes, as any sociologist knows.
It is very easy to motivate the will of the crowd, to play with it, and make it behave in a certain way that, to the observer, seems delusional and illogical.
The first theories in the theory of 'crowd psychology' teach this, as well as the mobilization of peoples for dictators who led their people to destruction - such as Hitler and Stalin.
All of this is true, but the condition for this must be that the masses at least think that they are the ones who decide, they are the ones who choose, and they are the ones who decide.
We must give him this feeling.
Even the ignorant man reads the newspapers, watches current affairs programs, and listens to political programs on the radio. At such times, he turns to his wife, who works at the local gas station, and expresses his opinion to her in a decisive manner, as she nods her head in agreement, and either agrees or argues with her wise husband.
Ilana Dayan missed this basic understanding, and so did Noni Moses, Hillary Clinton, and Robert De Niro. Their mistake was not their recognition that they were capable of thinking for the common man, guiding him and directing him toward the right vote. No. Their big mistake was that they exposed it to the people and the world.
They have not ceased to declare that they believe that the power in their hands allows them to guide the masses of the people.
And the masses of the people did not like this directive.
The fact that Mr. Moses has a large newspaper, the reputation that accompanies the comedic and dramatic abilities of actor Robert De Niro, the puckered face of Mrs. Dayan, and the condescending humor of Mrs. Livni and her friends in the low entertainment world of the Israeli media, give the ordinary citizen the feeling that he is surrounded by a group that believes that it is superior to him and can decide his future for him.
And the masses don't like that. They want to think they're the ones who decide.
This feeling was given to him by Benjamin Netanyahu, and now by Donald Trump.
""They have all the celebrities, singers and actors," Trump said a few days ago, "I have my family." That's all.
So singers Jay-Z and basketball player LeBron James can tell the people that they should vote for Clinton. Singer Shlomo Artzi and writer Amos Oz can express their opinion on Benjamin Netanyahu's performance. But the common man wants one thing.
That they won't decide for him. That they won't vote for him. He needs the feeling that he's the one who voted, even if according to all psychological theories he's just a prisoner of a sophisticated campaign. At least he doesn't need to know that. He just wants the feeling that he's the one who decided.
He wants to turn to his wife in the car and tell her, in the face of Rina's condescending tone, "Just like I told you, there's no one like Bibi.".
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