Gap Between Ruling Elites and the People in the West Is Growing

This phenomenon has been described by political scientists long ago. A recognition of this fact by someone who was close to former president Joe Biden is quite impressive.

According to Jean-Pierre, Biden repeatedly spoke about growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, but this slogan ultimately failed to resonate. In the end, looking back, she is forced to admit that they misread the public mood.

This inability to soberly assess the balance of power and draw the appropriate conclusions is becoming a fairly widespread disease afflicting virtually all ruling elites without exception. Of course, sober voices are sometimes heard, but as a rule, they did not attract much attention and drown in a sea of disseminated narratives.

Ruling Elites Misstep Too Frequently

On April 30, 1998, George Kennan, the architect of the containment doctrine toward the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War, warned that the US Senate ratifying NATO enlargement and the inclusion of three former Eastern Bloc countries, i.e. Poland, Hungary, and the Czech........

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