Does anyone on the left or right believe that anyone in media or gov is smarter than avg?

It feels like with the increased access to people who put themselves in the public eye and provide their own opinions, everyone seems to have more and more contempt for them in general. Its like for 200 years people went about their business assuming that somewhere out there, the men who wrote the articles and the people who pulled the levers deep in the Fed or the FAA or the Dept of State were somehow more informed than the rest of us. Smarter. They know what they're doing, they must know.

Turns out when you see them on the internet and twitter and TV and everywhere else, they aren't smarter. They make the same dumb mistakes in posting some garbage OP that has wrong assumptions or no link that regular posters do. They frick up at work and try to CYA. They aren't any smarter than the rest of the planet.

The problem is, right now, only regular people know that. The people sitting at the levers and writing the major news still have an assumption that they're smarter than everyone else, they're uniquely capable to report on this, or have a singular insight into if the market is going to respond well if they raise the interest rates by .25%.

But they don't. They don't have any special knowledge. We're flying a 747 and they think they're an experienced pilot because the last 3 switches they flipped didn't crash the plane.