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This article made lots of great points, but I fundamentally disagree with bucketing everyone into "elites" (whatever that means) and "everyone else". Every lead
by mwfunk 10y ago
This article made lots of great points, but I fundamentally disagree with bucketing everyone into "elites" (whatever that means) and "everyone else". Every leader (within the media, a government, a political party, etc.) is an elite by the definitions used here. Trump is an elite. The politicians behind Leave are elites. They may be trying to displace other elites with different views, but that doesn't mean they themselves aren't elites. They're just really good at convincing people that they are disenfranchised.
- optimusclimb 10y agoI'm with you on the elites bit. It strikes me as the kind of ambiguous blanket term that will leave some student 20-40 years from now reading a primary source from this time period scratching their head, trying to understand exactly who the elites the author mentioned so many times were.