Well i can say at least, some of the politicians in my country don't use their brain - they do blidfold choices sometimes.

But then there are some politicians using their brains and they influence the population who aren't using their brains. They either
believe what they say or they are just to lazy to think and accept everything.

People who use their brains are influencing the politicians in return, who are doing blindfold choices.

There are allways intelligent people who are manipulating others. But poor are those, who believe in what they say.

Maybe i will write a blog about a example, a debate about banning certain video games -
many politicians are doing, i would call ,
brain washing or maybe propaganda against the "evil" computer gamer. But that's a other story - i don't believe in what they are saying -
i'm first - a victim in some way and second
- i use my brain.