I once read a leftist claim that the elite always pushes mysticism while the "common man" is a materialist. This of course is pure hooey, and even the left knows it, which is why they celebrate rather than attack the religions of "indigenous pipples."
If Mother Jones believed in G-d, then atheists have no right to name a magazine after her. If she did not, then she was merely another elitist.
Mother Jones was nothing more than a rabble rousing socialist union organizer and community organizer. (She was Chairman Obama before there was a Chairman Obama.) I’d be hard pressed to call her an intellectual.