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IMO, an elitist is anyone who:
Feels they are smarter, more knowlegeable, better educated and have better judgement than most other people.
Feel they have a right to dictate to others how they should vote, how they should live, what they should think, and what is best for them. For their own good, of course.
Feels that what should apply for most people shouldn't necessarily apply to them, they have legitimate reasons to be be above or excluded from everybody else.
Feels that anybody who disagrees with them is either foolish, uneducated, simply wrong or downright threatening.
Will use any means necessary to control others and do that to gain wealth, power and positions of privilege for themselves. Whether it be through business or politics or jobs in the media or entertainment.
I think describes it best so far.
In many ways they believe in the laundry list of things you present. An elitist is one who thinks they should rule because of their belief in their superior intellect. Democrats labor under the misguided belief that their beliefs are superior and those who do not think the same as they do are somehow inferior. Your last line is the give away. Clearly anyone who doesn't agree with the agenda of the left must, by definition, be illiterate.
I think I agree. With a starting post like that, the OP comes off as elitist. I also agree that an assumption of superiority is part of the perception of elitists.
For me, the one's that scare me the most are those that believe we live in a world with two types of rules, ones that apply to themselves and their friends and families, and another that applies to everyone else. It can derive from wealth, rank, education, religion, political ideology, athletics,etc. I would suspect that the wealthy are the most capable of executing an elitist vision (gated communities, private schools, buying politicians etc.).
[quote=shorebaby;17557939]Maybe so, however they don't have any power. The media and the DC ruling class do have power and they are lefties for the most part.[/quote]
I think I agree. With a starting post like that, the OP comes off as elitist. I also agree that an assumption of superiority is part of the perception of elitists.
For me, the one's that scare me the most are those that believe we live in a world with two types of rules, ones that apply to themselves and their friends and families, and another that applies to everyone else. It can derive from wealth, rank, education, religion, political ideology, athletics,etc. I would suspect that the wealthy are the most capable of executing an elitist vision (gated communities, private schools, buying politicians etc.).
I think the people who can execute the elitist philosophy are the media, and the media is overwhelmingly left. How many poor souls believe everything that is in the NY Times simply because they think their view is the "smart" view.
Maybe so, however they don't have any power. The media and the DC ruling class do have power and they are lefties for the most part.[/quote]
I would beg to differ.
That's OK we can disagree. What I see is the media going on a Crusade agains Conservatives and Republicans. How many of the modern Republican Presidents have been accused of being either dumb or venal by the press?
In many ways they believe in the laundry list of things you present. An elitist is one who thinks they should rule because of their belief in their superior intellect. Democrats labor under the misguided belief that their beliefs are superior and those who do not think the same as they do are somehow inferior. Your last line is the give away. Clearly anyone who doesn't agree with the agenda of the left must, by definition, be illiterate.
That also describes the right to a tea. You were saying?
Casper
That also describes the right to a tea. You were saying?
Casper
LOL, the Tea Party bases their beilief on the constitution not on the belief that those with differing opinions are intellectually inferior, the left not so much.
LOL, the Tea Party bases their beilief on the constitution not on the belief that those with differing opinions are intellectually inferior, the left not so much.
So am i. Good for you. I've been called an elitist for years, and i respectfully embrace the title. Yep, i'm pretty much an elitist...always have been.
To me, the word elite means the best of the best, and i've always sought to be just that. I have never understood why so many libs run from the word.
I think you might be confusing two definitions of the term. Being the best of the best is a noble aspiration. Considering your own opinions to be the only viable ones, without exception, is by deifinition an elitist attitude. You can be an elite athlete, scholar, builder, architect... etc. without having an elitist attitude.
Prime time Deion Sanders is a good example of someone who was an elite athelete, but also openly treated other athletes as inferior. He is the polar opposite of a say, a Carl Lewis.
Politicians:
-who have never held a real job, but impose their will on how best to create jobs are eiltists.
-who can't balance a checkbook, yet pork away your taxes are elitists.
-who expect you to do as they say, not as they do are elitists.
-who are socialists even in the face of socialisms historical failures are elitists
-who break laws that would put any of us in jail, and complain about a centure or investigation (Waters, Blagojevich (and now his wife), Edwards, Rangel, and a host of others both dem and rep) are elitists.
-Gore is an uber elitist (after all he invented the internet and now carbon credits)
If you consider others to be mere mortals, then you suffer from an elitist attitude and should probably seek help for it.
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