And it's not just Europe, and not only based on class.
A former Obama White House official described the regulatory capture of US copyright policy as "extremists are people who talk only among themselves".
For me, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of election press coverage, has been the inability to generalize. To see the monster in the mirror. Much was written about Trump supporters tolerating lies, living in an echo chamber, and believing absurd things. But I haven't seen a single article pointing out the similarities to Fortune 500 CEOs making press statements that directly contradict their SEC filings, and getting no grief for it. And to beliefs like "makers and takers", and 'let them build and assemble the things, but we'll keep the manufacturing design and engineering'. I recently talked with a Harvard professor who had taught the latter years ago, asking "WTF? Anyone with a manufacturing background would have told you that's absurd. What happened?" He said, "It was the idea in the air at the time, the thing everyone was saying".
"Everyone". Groupthink, being out of touch, seems a prominent failure mode of the US political establishment. And it gets very little analysis.
On issues such as manufacturing the hard political truth is that these jobs have been lost both to innovation and through trade (of jobs). Manufacturing jobs have been sacrificed to get cheaper products and the focus has been set on services. I think that overall this is quite reasonable and long term we will look at this transition the same way we look at the transition from agriculture to industry now.
Nevertheless this also means that while the majority profits some smaller though still significant part of the population gets screwed by this.
This isn't exactly the message you put out so you wrap it up in some euphemisms for voters. This has nothing to do with being out of touch, this is politicians and CEOs saying what they need to be able to do what they want.
A former Obama White House official described the regulatory capture of US copyright policy as "extremists are people who talk only among themselves".
For me, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of election press coverage, has been the inability to generalize. To see the monster in the mirror. Much was written about Trump supporters tolerating lies, living in an echo chamber, and believing absurd things. But I haven't seen a single article pointing out the similarities to Fortune 500 CEOs making press statements that directly contradict their SEC filings, and getting no grief for it. And to beliefs like "makers and takers", and 'let them build and assemble the things, but we'll keep the manufacturing design and engineering'. I recently talked with a Harvard professor who had taught the latter years ago, asking "WTF? Anyone with a manufacturing background would have told you that's absurd. What happened?" He said, "It was the idea in the air at the time, the thing everyone was saying".
"Everyone". Groupthink, being out of touch, seems a prominent failure mode of the US political establishment. And it gets very little analysis.