Wretchard said @ 10:

“Obama of course wanted to rise as high as he could. You can’t fault him for that. But you can fault the “gatekeepers” — the MSM, the DNC, the professional politicians, the great and the good, the university dons, the whole quality control system for endorsing this man into something over his head. The system is broken. And there’s no guarantee that when Obama goes at the end of his term that they won’t throw up another handsome hapless guy and stick him in the Oval office.”

In a democracy everything that happens is a learning experience for the electorate. What our electorate has to learn now is that our professional politicians, the great and the good, the university dons and our unionized public employees have walled themselves off from the real economy behind their tenure, civil service regulations and pension arrangements, and seceded from the rest of the country as best they can. They are now just strutting up and down their walls, striking an occasional populist pose and tossing out instructions and regulatory diktats, on how not to behave.

Clearly the main thing everyone else now has to learn is that we’re on our own and have to think for ourselves. In this respect the Tea Party movement is a very good thing, and could lead over time towards a positive outcome.