My Faith in Humanity Is Waning

I frequently hear from politicians that the "collective wisdom of the public knows all". Really?! I somehow doubt it.

In just the past few days I've heard/read the following:

• The people who want independence in Tibet are terrorists & criminals and Mother China is a benevolent government.
• Because of what happened to North American Natives in the past few hundred years justifies China doing what they are to the "ungrateful" people of Tibet.
  
• Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe has the most democratic government on the planet.
• After WW2, most German people thought that their Nazi government had done nothing wrong, not even to the Jews.
  

I sometimes wonder where we're headed.