Being led by our cultural elite

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Recipe for a disaster and we are now finally getting some push-back. From The National Interest:

Why Are Elites Out of Touch? They Think Anyone Who Disagrees with Them Is Crazy
The experts told us that Brexit will not happen. It cannot happen. The consequences will be too severe. The economic fallout too great to even imagine. Yet, the unthinkable became a reality: The people of Britain voted "Leave,” against the experts' advice. How could this be? Did they not hear the experts' warnings? What went wrong?

Baffled, the experts searched for an answer. And they found one: the people went mad. They became mad from their anger at globalization. Globalization promised them riches, instead it made some of them unemployed. Or they became mad because of fear—fear from immigration and foreign people. Whatever the reason they went mad, the experts are sure of one thing: the fault is not with them. They gave sound advice. Their arguments were relevant. The fault is with the populace, not the leaders.

Could not have said it better myself. Z Man amplifies this:

Doers Versus Talkers
The other day in the comments, there was a brief exchange about the difference between people that do things and people that say things. Nixon used to divide the political world into those in the arena and those who talked about those in the arena. He even wrote a book about it. This is the same formulation you see in sports. Athletes complain all the time about the press, pointing out that few of them ever played the game at any level, so they can only imagine what it is like to be a player.

Like I have said before - these people in the other Washington are trying to manage our lives but they have never run a business, never cut paychecks, never really did anything productive with their lives. They went to private school, a prep school, Harvard, Yale or Columbia law, clerked for some judge or did some community organizing, ran for office and got elected. They are utterly clueless.

Term limits on Congress would be a wonderful idea. Get rid of the "professional politicians" and get back to the original intent - people would serve for a few years and go back to their regular lives. This would go a long way to restoring our nation. People like Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are a pox on our government.

A big tip of the hat to Maggie's Farm for bringing those two links to my attention.

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