[T-Bone Texan]

This screed is a mess but the fact remains: the elites see themselves as superior to the mouth-breathing masses.

They see humans solely as tools and units of labor.

We must defeat and destroy them if our society and culture is to survive.

[alexander_busek]

[...] the elites see themselves as superior to the mouth-breathing masses.

While I wouldn't have used quite those words to describe them, I myself see myself as belonging to the elite: I have an education, a career, no debt, and I support my family. Through decades of thrift and prudent investment, I have amassed sufficient funds to have no worries about my retirement. By virtue of those facts, I (and probably a large fraction of all FReepers) belong automatically to the elite, as I would define them - as opposed to the teeming masses of illegal aliens, multi-generational welfare families, criminal underclass hoodies, etc. blighting the American cultural landscape.

Of course, if, by "elite," you mean the super-rich who have never really worked a day in their lives, trust-fund babies, hedge-fund managers, and the like - then I most certainly am of the "hoi polloi."

Regards,

[Boogieman]

Defeat and destroy the elites?

Did I wander into a freaking Marxist chatroom by accident?

News flash: you’re always going to have classes, you’re always going to have “elites”, and they’re always going to think they are better than everyone else and try their best to throw their weight around. That’s life, and there is no way to avoid it, because it results from human nature.

[Ben Ficklin]

There are two groups of elitists.

Economic elitists in the GOP would be Wall Street, Main Street, Transnationals, etc.

Cultural elitists in the democrat party which can also be called intellectual elitists or to use Bork's term, cultural Marxists. Bork defined them as those who make their living with words and language and include educators, entertainers, bureaucrats, media people, lawyers, etc.

There are two groups of populists.

Economic populists are in the dem party and include blue collar/unions, enviros, and the social justice crowd.

Cultural populists are in the GOP and are rural culture, southern culture, prairie culture, gun culture, fundamentalism, etc.

Traditionally the GOP was the elitist party and the democrats were the populist party.

That began to change in the 1960s when the cultural elitists left the GOP to take over the dem party and the final battle for the dem party was at the 1968 dem convention in Chicago.

This did not set well with the cultural populists in the dem party and the GOP use Nixon's southern strategy to bring these people out of the dem party into the GOP. The silent majority and the moral majority.

Thus: the dem party became a coalition between economic populists and cultural elitists while the GOP became a coalition of economic elitists and cultural populists.

Obama's credentials as a cultural elitist flow from being a Harvard educated lawyer while his credentials as a economic populist flow from being a community organizer(social justice).

Bernie Sanders is an economic populist while Hillary is a cultural elitist. Trump is an economic elitist masquerading as a cultural populist

Both of these coalitions are breaking down.

The boomers are moving off the stage so the dem coalition is in jeopardy.

The cultural populists in the GOP have turned on the economic elitists because of the elitists' position on abortion, homosexuals, foreign trade, immigration, etc.

A presidential ticket of Sarah Palin(cultural populist) and Elizabeth Warren(economic populist) would win 70% of the popular vote and 90% of the electoral vote