Survey: D.C. bureaucrats think ‘public are idiots’
‘Many civil servants expressed utter contempt for the citizens they served’
GARTH KANT
WND.com
10/6/2016
WASHINGTON – “These are ungrateful ignoramuses. Never has the term ‘public servant’ been rendered more devoid of meaning.”
That was the succinct but scathing reaction of former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., to the findings in a survey in a Washington Post article titled, “Washington’s ‘governing elite’ think Americans are morons.”
The survey found most of the bureaucrats and Capitol Hill staffers who run the federal government think public opinion should be largely ignored on policy decisions.
The Johns Hopkins University political scientists who did the survey found, “Many civil servants expressed utter contempt for the citizens they served.”
The Post called the results “eye-popping,” adding, “On a wide range of issues, bureaucrats believe that Americans are ignorant.”
Bachmann told WND, “Only people in secure, insulated, well-paid jobs with generous pensions and healthcare benefits can afford to look down their noses at the people who provide for them a lifestyle they could never acquire for themselves in the private marketplace.”
It’s not just contempt for the public. It’s contempt for Congress, too, according to someone who should know.
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