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I don't care if it's elite. Elite is not a bad thing. (Speaking of elite, don't get me started on "elite" being a bad label for politicians -- I WANT the elite

• michaelchisari 16y ago
  Elitism doesn't always lead to the elite, though. Sometimes (often times) it just leads to the entrenched.
  • Helianthus16 16y ago
    I would go so far as always. Power tries to hold onto power.
• protomyth 16y ago
  well, as long as they still have empathy
• jerf 16y ago
  You're missing the point of the "elite" term in the context of politicians; part of the point is precisely that they are not elite. There is no such thing as a biological ruling class. They're just folk. We're all just folk. The reason why the system built on that premise has, broadly speaking, worked better than its competition over the course of centuries is not just that it's a gloriously wonderfully nice thing to say, it is because it actually reflects reality better, and systems that reflect reality tend to work better than those built on a fundamental denial of some part of it. (And to the extent it is having trouble it very arguably can be blamed at least partially on the attempt to create a ruling class today.)