That is exactly what HL Mencken called the ignorant, middle class. He was an elitist, a racist, and an anti-Semitic among other things.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/convalescing-pope-francis-slips-right-back-old-habits/
Convalescing Pope Francis Slips Right Back Into Old Habits: Meets With Socialists, Climate Alarmists – Globalist Pontiff Pushing Document in Favor of LGBTQ+ Acceptance by the Church
“An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making roles, for a ‘radical inclusion’ of the LGBTQ+ community and for new accountability measures to check how bishops exercise authority.
The Vatican on Tuesday released the synthesis of a two-year consultation process, publishing a working document that will form the basis of discussion for a big meeting of bishops and laypeople in October. The synod, as it is known, is a key priority of Pope Francis, reflecting his vision of a church that is more about the faithful rank-and-file than its priests.”
The document dwells on the impact of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, calls for women to be ordained deacons in the church. But the most controversial part is the one dedicated to reorient the Church’s approach to homosexuality and transgenderism.
“The document also asked what concrete steps the church can take to better welcome LGBTQ+ people and others who have felt marginalized and unrecognized by the church so that they don’t feel judged: the poor, migrants, the elderly and disabled, as well as those who by tribal or caste feel excluded.”
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He was an odd duck (I am being charitable), but quite insightful - "prescient," perhaps - WRT the both the masses and the neurotic ruling classes. I had to struggle through some Mencken in college, and went from hating the guy to finding him witty enough to actually enjoy at a distance.
An old, old copy of his book "Happy Days" was still in the local library when I was in my 30's, and I actually laughed out loud at parts of it. Here was a notable curmudgeon engagingly describing a wonderful and privileged childhood in a bygone world. Humans can be awfully weird dichotomies.
It was Menchen’s play on the word “bourgeoisie.”