This past week Peggy Noonan wrote an amazing article for the Wall Street Journal entitled The Boiling Over of America. Within the piece Noonan very concisely broke down the fundamental reason why politicians don't listen to the complaints of their constituents and generally come up with policies that ate ineffective.
To put it bluntly Noonan explained it this way, modern politicians are 'highly educated stupid people'.
The meaning behind that description of our political leaders breaks down as such:
Just about everyone who holds a key position in Washington DC attended a major university where they were all taught to think alike. All the instructors as well as students shared the same view of the world and its issues. There was never any opposing points of view ever discussed. Nothing was ever challenged.
Much of what these future leaders learned was steeped in theory not facts. These theoretical concepts were never challenged but presented as the factual foundations that all future policies should be based. No thought was ever given to whether or not any of these concepts were practical, beneficial or even how to properly implement them.
Flash forward to after they have been elected. Here they are, again, surrounded by a bunch of people who believe and feel the same way as their peers back in college. Everybody seems to be on the same team. Except this time there are some people who aren't.
For the first time in their lives these individuals are faced with people who don't agree with their political theories and policies derived from them.
How can this be?
For these ideologs this simply does not compute. They have never learned how to debate or back up their ideas so they simply don't. They have never been faced with an opposing view point so they simply ignore it.
This is why they often view people with counter political views as either foolish, crazy or possibly even somewhat evil. This of course explains a lot of the rhetoric that is expressed by progressive politicians as well as the media that supports them.
I have, of course, just paraphrased what Noonan wrote about in her article.
Here is an excerpt from The Boiling Over of America:
Early reports suggest, unsurprisingly, that minority voters backed the recall in greater numbers than college-educated whites. This is because they suffer more and have fewer protections when crime spikes and homeless encampments seize new ground.
This is what the foes of progressives are saying: We won’t let our city go down. We won’t accept the idea of steady deterioration. We will fight the imposition of abstract laws reflecting the abstract theories of people for whom life has always been abstract and theoretical. We can’t afford to be abstract and theoretical, we live real lives. We wish to be allowed to walk the streets unmolested and with confidence. This isn’t too much to ask. It is the bare minimum.
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