Boiling Over

The American population is seething.
The Washington elite had better pay attention!
    "Do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down?," asks Peggy Noonan.  "They don't act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s, the growing gulf between the country's thought leaders, as they're called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we'll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.
   "But I've never seen the gap wider than it is now. I think it is a chasm"

   This piece by Peggy Noon appears in the Saturday print edition of the Wall Street Journal  She is right. The detachment of the politicos in Washington from the long-term worries of the average American has made citizens feel powerless.  "Inner pessimism and powerlessness," says she, "is a dangerous combination."  America At Risk of Boiling Over

 We spotted this tidbit on Wrisley today. Are you seething? Do you feel the political elite are detached from our reality?