The Political Class
I found this article fascinating:
Most Americans trust the judgment of the public more than political leaders, view the federal government as a special interest group and believe that big business and big government work together against the interests of investors and consumers. Only seven percent 7% share the opposite view and can be considered part of the Political Class.
On many issues, there is a bigger gap between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans than between Mainstream Republicans and Mainstream Democrats.
via Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere.
There’s more, and the focus is how the Political Class had a very different, and much lower, opinion of the April1 5 Tea Parties than did the rest of the country. What i found interesting, however, was this concept of the Political Class as defined by Rasmussen, and the data that defines it.
I would very much like to get more detail. For example, the article states that “most Americans” believe the three statements listed above, but does not define the size of that majority. Is it a bare 51%, or significantly higher. In addition, it gives no information on how many people believe some combination of only one, or two of the three propositions, and which ones are most believed and which are least.
Further, I’m quite surprised at how low the support for the negative side of those three propositions is. That group seems to be dominant politically, which is why I suppose it is reasonable to call them the Political Class: depsite low numbers, they dominate and rule the rest of us through politics.
Couldn’t we stop that?
