Financial constraints to living & working in Washington, D.C. likely define & reinforce the community of people able to stay long enough to achieve senior positions, leading to a policy-making community distinct from the American public.
https://sheril.substack.com/p/left-out-of-the-room-where-it-happens #politics
So what? "Misperceptions & blind spots among decision makers may occur, in part, because their lived experiences primarily reflect those from communities with the resources required to maintain influential roles."
@Sheril and this is exactly why we shouldn't be leaving such decisions up to such people in the first place.
And it's not how the system was designed.
So the problem is not that there's a lack of diversity among the decision makers. The problem is that these people should not be making such decisions in the first place.
