ABSTRACT
It is a prejudice that politics is best practiced by experts. After more than five decades of increasingly technocratic rule by elites, we are seeing a rebellion of the publics against elite governance. The prejudices of liberal-democratic politics—that democracy is liberal and individualist, and that democracy should privilege technocratic governance over populist politics—are being upended. We are reminded, as Hannah Arendt argues, that politics is not about truth, but a plurality of opinions. This chapter contends that the technocratic prejudice of elite politics is no longer meaningful or feasible. This means that we need to re-imagine a pluralist politics free from the prejudices that have, for decades, bridled democracy by liberal and individualist ideals.
