D.C. does P.C.

One reason why so many people in the Washington, D.C., area are so excruciatingly politically correct is the fact that the Official Washington attitude and political correctness were tailor-made for each other. They both depend on the notion that fate has hand-picked certain people to make all of the decisions for the rest of us. Of course, people who believe so never stop to wonder what makes them so sure that they're among the hand-picked.