This really tells us a lot about the culture of power in Washington, especially those connected to the Republicans, and thereby even more connected to the elites of wealth. They all know better. That's their essential attitude, and while it is human, it is wrong. They don't know better.
If they actually had to justify that proposition against an informed and logically coherent thinking, it could not be done. But one other thing we can count on, besides that they believe they know better, is that never ever will this attitude let itself appear in a forum where it could really be challenged.
It is a bit refreshing, however, to actually see it finally confessed to in public, this belief that ordinary people don't have what it takes intellectually and morally to make judgments about what their Country should do. No wonder they have wanted (and still will seek) such an excess of power in the Executive Branch. What a burden they have to bear, that we think we live in a Democracy, when all the "we know better" people keep trying to make it into an oligarchy of elites of power and wealth, in which we best serve as workers, consumers, and battlefield fodder for their wars of aggression.
Just amazing really, to see this attitude so publicly displayed at last.
