Overcoming Resistance to Change

The general ability of people to detect political deception must increase in order to have politicians racing to  improve the common good.  Politicians have been getting away with so much money from corporations and rich donors that they don't view their behavior as corruption. Politicians continue to deceive the general public about why they vote the way they do.


Understanding cause and affect supports people learning how to detect political deception.  Politicians have been playing the "Pull my Finger" joke on the public. They trick people into thinking that what they say makes sense and people believe what they say.  However, learning about how systems work will improve people's ability to detect political deception.


The book "Merchants of Doubt" has demonstrated how many different ways deception has been used to discredit global warming science and science in general.