The majority is always wrong, at least 50% of the time. Then you have mob rule, and chaos. Ignorant people are easily persuaded to follow their "leader". Look back into history: The French Revolution, Russian Uprising, Hilter's Germany, Mao's China, Kim's North Korea, Jones' Jonestown... Each event resulted in major human catastrophe as citizens turned on each other, and were slaughtered like sheep.
Even the US is not immuned to mass hysteria. All you need are a few radio and TV hosts spinning lies and people turn into sheeples. An example is the idea you just repeated. The stimulus plan has been available for some time. I've skimmed through it. You can, too, if you care to spend the effort. If I held high officie in the government, I would have teams of people (smarter and better trained than me) going through every page, and negotiate back and forth among the many other teams in closed sessions. You don't hear the people in Congress complaining, only those trouble-makers on radio stirring the pot. And if you buy into that, and keep spreading the tale, then you'll have been used and everybody loses. Luckily, there are enough people around who would stop and check and ask questions...
Even the US is not immuned to mass hysteria. All you need are a few radio and TV hosts spinning lies and people turn into sheeples. An example is the idea you just repeated. The stimulus plan has been available for some time. I've skimmed through it. You can, too, if you care to spend the effort. If I held high officie in the government, I would have teams of people (smarter and better trained than me) going through every page, and negotiate back and forth among the many other teams in closed sessions. You don't hear the people in Congress complaining, only those trouble-makers on radio stirring the pot. And if you buy into that, and keep spreading the tale, then you'll have been used and everybody loses. Luckily, there are enough people around who would stop and check and ask questions...
