Contradiction between my love for things like decentralization and democracy, and my realization that in practice I agree with intellectual elites more than "the people" on many (though definitely far from all) specific policy issues.
我对权力下放和民主的热爱，以及我意识到在实践中，我在许多（尽管绝对不是所有）具体政策问题上更认同知识精英而非“人民”之间的矛盾。