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One way to think of the elite is they are the people who can easily get those in power to actually listen to them. The typical person in the US, for example, h
by JaimeThompson 4y ago
One way to think of the elite is they are the people who can easily get those in power to actually listen to them. The typical person in the US, for example, has great difficulty getting their elected leaders to actually talk to them.
Large CEOs, the very wealthy, etc do not have such issues.
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoUnder that definition I'm skeptical that elites constitute a group that could be meaningfully analyzed as the article claims to do. Is it really true that Bernie Sanders, Ron Paul, and Mark Zuckerberg all read public opinion in similar ways? Even if it is true, "elites" seems like a very unhelpful term for the phenomenon, because I don't think anyone but a practicing political scientist is going to be happy if we go around calling all the popular politicans and major activist groups "elites".