The whole circus that is DC could not exist if thousands of politicians, their functionaries and members of the media were periodically uprooted and forced to live and work in "AnyRealTown USA".
It also might be beneficial if average people spent more time interacting cooperatively with neighbors and less time being glued to filtered versions of reality delivered via media and the internet.
Constantly being stirred up by something-or-other-bad happening somewhere else is a poor way to live.
Yeppers...
...I think "all of the above" were always upset when G.W. Bush vacationed at his ranch. They all thought that they were in a third-world country.