The policies that got us into this mess weren’t responses to public demand. They were, with few exceptions, policies championed by small groups of influential people — in many cases, the same people now lecturing the rest of us on the need to get serious. And by trying to shift the blame to the general populace, elites are ducking some much-needed reflection on their own catastrophic mistakes.
Quelle: The Unwisdom of Elites – NYTimes.com
Dasselbe in der Schweiz: Hierzulande ist die FDP mit ihren Krankenkassen- und AKW-Lobbyisten das Aushängeschild dieser Form von fataler Politik.
