No, Washington is filled with people who are certain they know what is best for everyone else and people are just too stupid to understand or see their brilliance.
Tell me, why is Congress exempt from Obamacare if it is such a fantastic thing and is forced upon everyone else? Why has ethanol been proven - proven - more harmful and wasteful and yet no one will release the public from this hated mandate?
No, the Washington cartel is filled with selfish arrogance. They do no serve the people, they exist to aggregate power and wealth unto themselves and this is now seen more clearly than ever.
Socrates versus Plato, I believe.
Is the average person an idiot who needs to be told what to do by the smarter 10%?
Or is the average person capable of making their own decisions and the management / leadership / dictates should be at a minimum?
In general, liberals are the first while conservatives are the second.
And too many party leaders in the Republican party are the “you need me to tell you what to do” group, while Democrats have unabashedly been the second for years. Hence the feeling of betrayal by conservatives, while liberals have had community organizers and race baiters for decades who promised to take care of you in return for doing X, Y and Z.