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I usually use the phrase "ignorance is bliss", but if you're an avid user of this phrase, you might know the related phrase "war is peace". A while ago, while there's nothing to confuse about the former phrase as it's direct and straightforward, I didn't quite understand the context of the latter one, until recently.
Should the mass expect to be in the peace ruled by any party? - that is the question. Do people want peace? I don't know. Rivalry has been the main driving force of society in early civilization and reduce to nuances of competition throughout history. The trend is that the world is becoming more peaceful, from endless massacres and merciless gladiators buying fun for the patricians, to a world controlled by the shadow of nuclear apocalypse and fake obedient citizens. People are killing each other in a more non-bloody way, but that's another story. But peace has been the tool for some parties to indoctrinate their propaganda, saying whatever they are doing, restricting people freedom, staying in power for the sake of people, is in the name of peace. Peace has been the vague, ambiguous, abstract goal used to impose specific agenda by a few elites.
That is the correspondence. Whenever a country is in peace, it is under totalitarianism. The more peaceful a country claims itself, the more dictative the ruling party and indoctrinated the people. With that said, peace is not a goal but an emergent phenomenon of a totalitarian state. When no one can react, it is indistinguishable from peace.
I don't think the mass can embrace and hope for any peace, either promised by any parties. Once any of them take control of the government, they will start executing their agenda, changing things that is most profitable for the ruling elites and never for the mass. If a party promise to give proper rights to the mass, that "mass" will eventually become the elites thanks to the policies, and whoever is not represented under the doctrine will become the new mass, which will again being taken advantage to benefit the former-mass-turned-elites.
Although not perfect (and I cannot think of any perfect solutions yet), a system like the US, where parties are ever changing and can be seen at constant "war", are actually better stabilized than most of the country have claim themselves "peaceful", which are just a manifestation of dictatorship.