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he one the doctors and lawyers and town social leaders belong to, and ask the members how many of their kids are in the military or how many have ever encouraged their kids to join the military.

My husband's roommate became a doctor. His son went to Annapolis.

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I can't put my finger on this idea yet.... but it seems that "elites" might be too broad a category. For example, at one extreme we can have low-income intellectual elites and at the other extreme we can have high income non-intellectual elites.
And then, too..
The elite liberals think every aggressive action should be solved by working harder to understand the aggressors. Liberal elites tend to be pacifists or anti-war.