The Myth of the Rational Voter by Prof. Bryan Caplan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKANfuq_92U&feature=youtu.be and the Myth of the Rule of Law by Professor Hasnas http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm as well as my assessment, The Democratic Capitalist Illusion, http://groups.google.com/group/HarrietRobbins/topics?hl=en of the ability of uneducated individuals participating in any form of democratic process dealing with political economy is highly unlikely to produce a desirable outcome. The key point being, uneducated in the area of political economy. People are not necessarily too stupid to vote, they just have not been taught how to be a good Citizen. They have not been taught to know the difference between a good and bad law, yet we are taught to go ahead and vote anyway with Party campaigns to get out the vote. The politicians are also lying and deceiving us as to what the will and will not do when elected to office. For those that are knowledgeable about the policial economy, we recognize many of the lies, because we know they can never deliver on the promises they make. To the uninformed, it emotionally influences them to vote for the wrong candidates. Hense why to the two major political Parties try so desperately to keep out any significant third Parties, especially the Libertarians whose sole purpose is the dismantling of political power through the minimizing of taxation.
As history has shown us time and time again, the majority of people will flat out vote their own individual rights away for social benefits, until they wake up one day under a totalitarian regime that the majority cannot dismantle or defeat. This is when atrocities such as mass exterminations and civil wars occur.
Couple that with the various religious influences from people who swear they are the children of God and you have what we historically called Government, none of which have worked well or greatly benefited the majority. We drown ourselves in fictional literary works, movies and sport just to bare the financial and physical oppression to both our minds and spirit.
Jurists 4 Justice; a key to civil society 