I can’t recall a political story that has humiliated more people posing as experts.  Let’s face it: political pundits with few exceptions proved that they know nothing of practical value when it comes to understanding the Republican presidential electorate.  Watch this 1-minute, 49-second compilation of “experts” outing themselves:   There is a general loss of faith in people who claim to be experts in many fields.  Technocracy, the faith that problems are solvable by dispassionate experts, probably hit its peak at the end of World War II, when victory was obtained through the work of scientists who developed weapons, including the A-bomb.  Its decline has been steady, fueled by embarrassing failures of expert predictions to work out.  Those modernist high-rise housing projects were touted by experts as just the thing to root out poverty.  The ever changing landscape of diet recommendations (eggs? good or bad? depends on...(Read Full Post)