JOEL KOTKIN: Why the World Is Rebelling Against ‘Experts:’

This arrogance, in part, stems froms what one writer at the Atlantic has called the war on the stupid. In this formulation, those with elite degrees, including the hegemons on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, dismiss local control as rule by the Yahoos. The progressive ideal of government by experts—sometimes seen as “the technocracy”—may sounds good in Palo Alto or London, but often promise a dim future for the middle class. Expert regulation, often with green goals in mind, take hard-earned gains like car and home ownership and cheap air travel all but out of reach for the middle class, while keeping them around for the globe-trotting elites.

Read the whole thing. It’s a great column and Kotkin is a good guy, but note that it’s appearing in a Website whose editor views those who rebel against their betters in DC as “Wingnuts,” and which grew out of the collapse of a magazine owned by the Washington Post who in its death throes declared “We Are Socialists Now,” shortly before being offloaded to an elderly millionaire rube for $1.00. Experts, heal thy selves.