People lose faith in the educated classes when they deceive and fail to deliver on promises. Look at all the financial experts and advisors who've been telling us for 9 years now  that interest rates will go up 'very soon'.  What about the regulators and architects that have been merrily approving and installing flammable cladding on buildings?  Airbags, supposedly a safety device in cars that instead explode and kill you?  Politicians, mostly on the center and the right who insist that open trade leads to better living standards, despite all the contrary evidence?  Regulators who believe that they can create 'livable' cities through zoning, when we now see homeless people everywhere  in most cities as a result of it. Socialized medicine with wait lists and barriers to entry galore. Professional credentials rather than proven real world ability in many regulated areas. Big companies like VW cheating with their products? No wonder we reject intellectualism - it no longer works.