So basically a majority of people who vote do so on the basis of ignorance and false beliefs. I'm hoping you don't begin to think about what's really wrong with qualification-free representative democracy in a market economy that's totally unchecked but serves only the profit motive of a few super-rich unscrupulous individuals. That might lead to depression. As it is, this article merely skims the surface by a few millimeters (that's fractions of a sixteenth of an inch in worn-out Freedom Units).