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This Bloomberg Editorial Claims Experts Are Necessary for Government – We Disagree

By Daily Bell Staff – January 15, 2017

Sometimes the People Need to Call the Experts … The government about to take over in Washington has more billionaires than the Boston of Buckley’s time, but it seems willing to test the theory that academics can be dispensed with for the most part.

This article says that people ought to run the country except when “experts” do a better job, and that’s a lot of the time.

The article maintains that it “prefers citizens for broad questions of policy and society. The citizens are more likely to be in touch with the concerns of everyday life, and less likely to embrace utopian schemes. They are more likely to be politically and culturally diverse. Overall, they are more conservative in both the