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The animals did not suggest another. Educate citizens are needed to participate effectively in a democracy, which would mean voting, doing their part in meetings, and in general contributing to the government. Without citizens participating, the government will not know the needs of the citizens and the citizens can be taken advantage of. When Animal Farm is first formed, the majority of the animals did not create resolutions and contribute to Sunday morning meetings. Only the pigs are smart enough to make resolutions and debate, so, naturally, they get whatever they want done, and he other animals’ needs are not met. They “understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.” (Orwell 48). Uneducated citizens are easily taken advantage of. Any propaganda they hear influences them to vote this way or another or think a certain way. The animals on the farm have doubts when something just does not seem right, but their doubts are put to ease because they believe all the lies that Squealer feeds to them. Each time Squealer reads out detailed analyses of the farm, hungry, sick, and a cold as they are, “the animals believed every word of
