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Government Elites in DC Think Americans Are Morons

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Bachner and Ginsberg argue that Washington’s bureaucrats have grown too dismissive of the people they are supposed to serve. They recently sent around an informal survey to selected members of this technocratic class, and the results, they say, were shocking.

“Many civil servants expressed utter contempt for the citizens they served,” they write in their book, “What Washington Gets Wrong.” “Further, we found a wide gulf between the life experiences of ordinary Americans and the denizens of official Washington. We were left deeply worried about the health and future of popular government in the United States.”
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And with good reason. But it's more than just the arrogance. In some cases bureaucrats have acted against the people in in violation of the law because they think they know better. It is not just a matter of a difference of experience, knowledge, or perspective. There is a tendency on the part of elites to exercise power that they have no right to have and to the determent of the people they are supposed to be serving.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-elite-actually-think-americans-are-morons/
 
LowDown said:
And with good reason. But it's more than just the arrogance. In some cases bureaucrats have acted against the people in in violation of the law because they think they know better. It is not just a matter of a difference of experience, knowledge, or perspective. There is a tendency on the part of elites to exercise power that they have no right to have and to the determent of the people they are supposed to be serving.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-elite-actually-think-americans-are-morons/
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These results and attitudes appear to dove tail quite well with the Progressive objective to place control of the people in the hands of professional bureaucrats running regulatory agencies, rather than deal with the ebb and flow of elected officials via legislative action.
 
And it's hard to say their wrong. People in general are morons, and Americans are no exceptions.
 
LowDown said:
And with good reason. But it's more than just the arrogance. In some cases bureaucrats have acted against the people in in violation of the law because they think they know better. It is not just a matter of a difference of experience, knowledge, or perspective. There is a tendency on the part of elites to exercise power that they have no right to have and to the determent of the people they are supposed to be serving.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-elite-actually-think-americans-are-morons/
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When more people in the U.S. know more about reality shows than they do their own representatives, yes, people are quite ignorant. I wouldn't say people are morons because they don't know something, most people are morons because they choose to continue to stay ignorant and not educate themselves.
 
LowDown said:
And with good reason. But it's more than just the arrogance. In some cases bureaucrats have acted against the people in in violation of the law because they think they know better. It is not just a matter of a difference of experience, knowledge, or perspective. There is a tendency on the part of elites to exercise power that they have no right to have and to the determent of the people they are supposed to be serving.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ng-elite-actually-think-americans-are-morons/
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They're not really all that wrong. Congress has the lowest approval rating pretty much ever and we keep voting them back in. Hell, we're actually going to put in Hillary or Trump because we can't seem to think that supporting 3rd parties will work.
 
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