25% of the Washington workforce are nonprofit employees

From Democrats Are Having a Purity Test Problem at Exactly the Wrong Time by Thomas B. Edsall.  As someone eager to see some return to sanity and reason, the article is largely good news.  I was struck by this truly appalling statistic.  

The impact of the racial reckoning in the nonprofit sector is being keenly felt in the nation’s capital, which has the third-largest concentration of locally focused nonprofits in the United States. When national organizations are taken into account, the Washington region is home to about 50,000 nonprofits employing 600,000 people, or, to put it another way, about one in four workers in Washington is a nonprofit employee, according to a 2018 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I have frequently spoken of the bubble effect of New York, LA, and DC on journalists.  The great majority of national journalists are clustered on those three cities (and a handful of similar cities) where there is essentially a mono-political system with only Democrats being elected, with outsized immigrant groups, great wealth and income inequality, crime, homelessness, etc.  MSM journalists write about what they see and what they see in their sheltered enclaves of high education, high income, high self-regard people living in high dysfunction cities is radically different than the national condition.

But woof! 25% of the Washington workforce are nonprofit employees?  How warping an influence is that?  10% lobbyists, 25% nonprofit ideologues, and 65% federal employees?  No wonder they neither understand America nor can solve real problems in the real world.  They are in a petrie dish of luxury beliefs.