Why People Don't Think For Themselves: How To Renew A Failing Democracy

Why are voters so easily hoodwinked? Why so many vote against their own interests? What is it about human beings that corrupts even the systems and organizations designed with the best of intentions? Why don't people or nations learn from experience, or from history? When is truth really relative, and when saying that is an excuse? What goes on inside people when they describe such different "realities" at the least whiff of a conflict of interests? Does thinking for yourself make you happi...