Fable 144 - The Camel Who Shat in the River

A camel was crossing a swiftly flowing river. He shat and immediately saw his own dung floating in front of him, carried by
the rapidity of the current.
‘What is that there?’ he asked himself. ‘That which was behind me I now see pass in front of me.’

This applies to a situation where the rabble and the idiots hold sway rather than the eminent and the sensible.