In particular, the progressive left’s reliance on experts to the increasing exclusion of citizen input, centralizes policy to an elite few. Experts rarely are held accountable for their recommendations and are mostly aloof from the consequences of their decisions. Former Vice President Joe Biden says he will take guidance from the experts; he says this often. While nonelected experts have a role in a democracy, their council should be subsidiary to citizen guidance on policy through their elected representatives. It’s apparent a progressive Biden administration will increase the alienation of the citizenry from its government and life will have to be lived as the elites so declare.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 13, 2020 17:26 UTC