the majority is always wrong

Maybe it's the people I hang with but nearly everyone I come in contact with have the same opinions about the government, congress, the powers behind the curtain, the economy, rising fuel prices, and just about everything else that directly, or indirectly, affects our lives.  It seems every time we turn around there's something getting worse and even hard core optimists are running for cover.  Most people outside the power circles can see potential solutions to this swelling onslaught of never ending crap but the people in the position to fix things just make things worse with the only tactic they know... Robbing Peter to pay Paul

I figure it this way... When a government manages to make matters worse every time they try to fix things, it's because they want to make things worse.  There can be no other reason, unless you take into account a little known law of nature that states, "The majority is always wrong."

But maybe the common man has it all wrong.  Maybe all the stuff going wrong is only perceived as wrong by people who can't see the big picture and fail to recognize the inconveniences that affect every aspect of our lives as necessary steps in a plan too complex for us to understand.  I was once told that if we ever had a superman as president he'd never be allowed to take humanity in the proper direction because his methods and actions would be too radical for anyone to comprehend as positive steps to a greater good.

Suppose the greater good our ship of humanity is setting course to is clean air, clean water, full employment, lots of low cost real estate, no crime, no fuel shortage, and the end of all our earthly problems. 

A good way to clean the air and water might be to get rid of industry.  Full employment can happen if the unemployed were eliminated.  Real estate would go down in price and fuel would get real cheap with three billion people populating the planet. 

Sounds like a great plan if you were psychopathic enough to think this was a great idea, like the 900 smart guys making it happen that run the planet.

I guess the majority is always wrong.