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Elite
- PaulHoule 4y agoThis is such an old discourse... Back in the 1990s we used to say that the journalists were left-wing but the person who owned the paper was left-wing. C. Wright Mill's "Power Elite" is still worth reading https://www.thoughtco.com/c-wright-mills-power-elite-3026474 https://www.thoughtco.com/c-wright-mills-power-elite-3026474 What I got out of it is that there is more than one kind of elite: there is the person who owns the trailer parks and car dealerships in a small town who is pretty important in that town, there are college professors who have a certain kind of status, there are politicians and the titans of industry. There isn't just one elite, but many kinds of elite.