I used to live close to the area she’s at and know this mentality well. There’s a simple word for it: snobs.
You can find conservative snobs but it’s a lot more common to find liberal snobs, who are exactly ike this woman describes. Their basic problem is they think they are better than eveyrone else (except for fellow snobs of course, who they will grudgingly admit to be equals, more or less).
And as long as you’re willing to play the game, they will be your best buddy and pal. But once they catch you crossing the unspoken boundary, they would “unfriend” you long before that was an actual thing.
I lived there in the Reagan years so it was pretty easy to find out who your true friends were, and which ones only liked you as long as they thought you fit into their world view. Now that this mentality has gestated into a new generation, it’s going to be fun watching a lot of snowflakes melt.
-—There’s a simple word for it: snobs.-—
I don’t think that’s the right word...
more like elitist, people who think they are special because they think they have special knowledge or insight us simpletons do not have...
Snobs used to mean people of means looking down their nose at you
Yep, I have a classmate who still lives in northern Michigan. He told me that that all the lawn signs he saw were for Hillary, and they're all transplants who are not native to the north country...
As a side note, as the liberal transplants with money moved in, the tax burden increased on the old time residents to the point they had to sell their houses in town and move out to the country.
That's how the leftist movement continues to spread.......
They all think they are so intelligent and everyone else is an idiot lost in ignorance until they appeared to enlighten the unwashed masses.