On: Democracies with two major parties invariably promote discrimination and brainwashing.

I would like to introduce to this thread a book that recently came out called Myth of the Rational Voter. Byran Caplan argues that voters on the whole make irrational decisions and even lists 4 specific "biases" that voters suffer from.

Here's a podcast that explains the book: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/06/caplan_on_the_m.htm...