Our Exhausted American Mediocracy

Our Exhausted American Mediocracy

https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/30/our-exhausted-american-mediocracy/

Excerpt: The 2016 election and refutation of the ruling class did not signal that those without such educations and qualifications were de facto better suited to direct the country. Instead, the lesson was that the past record of governance and the current stature of our assumed best and brightest certainly did not justify their reputations or authority, much less their outsized self-regard. In short, instead of being a meritocracy, they amount to a mediocracy, neither great nor awful, but mostly mediocre. (Hanson skewers almost everybody! Great column. Link may not be live. Ron P.)