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Can you expound on that?

• eli_gottlieb 10y ago
  Thomas Frank wrote his latest book about it. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/review-listen-liberal https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/review-listen-liberal >For Frank, the central defining tendency of the modern Democratic Party is its domination by “professionals,” the highly-credentialed, data-driven Best and Brightest that Obama stuffed his cabinet with.
  • mjevans 10y ago
    Wouldn't you /want/ the best and brightest setting the direction and making sure that course is followed? I can understand having a different criteria for selection, but that doesn't seem to be the message. They can't really want willfully ignorant, under-performing, yet popular.
    • eli_gottlieb 10y ago
      > Wouldn't you /want/ the best and brightest setting the direction and making sure that course is followed? Please read the book. You want the best and brightest writing the policies, but you need them working on behalf of the working-class in general, through an exercise of broadly-based working-class power inside the party. Otherwise, you just get what we have, which is the best and brightest writing policies that favor the best and brightest above everyone else.