愚ぐ民みん政せい策さく

noun

obscurantist policy; keep-the-people-ignorant policy

A political strategy of deliberately keeping the populace uninformed or uneducated to maintain control.

• その政せい権けんは愚ぐ民みん政せい策さくをとっていると批ひ判はんされた。

  The administration was criticized for adopting an obscurantist policy.