Well now that's awfully racist of them! /sarc
Isn't it quite interesting how we live in a time where the Conservatives among us are generally the better educated and wealthy while the Progressives seem Hell-bent on "equality" among all people despite the fact that those poor and uneducated masses have no desire to better their situations.
Essentially, as you so eloquently put in your opinion, we "[resent] being ordered about by people [we consider our] economic and intellectual inferiors."
I don't know about any of you, but Barack Hussein Obama has shown nothing to me to indicate any grooming or pedigree from an institute of higher education, and I would go so far as to say that he's no more intelligent or intellectual than any rag-wearing bum on a Chicago street corner asking for change to wash your windshield.
The Adamses, Washingtons, Monroes, Franklins and Jeffersons among us need to see the "correspondences" from Washington as a bell-weather for the coming tides of darkness and prepare our bulwarks accordingly.
As a trend, the more educated you are, the more conservative you are, up through graduate or professional degree. Obtaining a PhD reverses the trend and makes you more liberal.
Most PhD work for the government or in education and can be viewed as rent-seekers, I suppose. Same is true for income, of course, the more you earn, the more conservative you become, or alternatively, the more conservative you are, the more you are likely to earn.
One delicious irony is that the more you know about science, the less likely you are to accept global warning alarmism.