Self-foolery. The proper study of mankind is man in groups, but the pendulum of hyperindividualism has swung so far in the West that the citizenry can't think collectively. So they fail to attend to the electoral process.

All the information necessary for democracy to function has been nominally available since the Greeks partly invented it, but education is neglected.

Austerity is the fault of the heedless.

Align culture with our nature. Ot else!