Fredo Arias-King, writing for Center of Immigration Studies (CIS) for one year served as aide to presidential candidate Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico. After Fox's victory he declined government jobs but agreed to represent the PAN (Partido Acción Nacional) at both Republican and Democratic national conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles speaking extensively to U.S. public figures including 80 members of Congress about bilateral relationships. Harvard trained businessman and Sovietologist and funding editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization published in Washington. His three articles on CIS.org: 1) I Understand Your People, 2) Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People's Will, from which this post is drawn, and, 3) Politics by Other Means: The "Why" of Immigration to the United States.
TL:DR Democracy requires informed and involved electorate. In America this has developed too far for the comfort of office holders. In seeking to entrench their own power American leaders of both parties prefer a less informed and less involved electorate, in short, they seek to change the electorate more malleable and more accepting to a Patron-Client relationship.
