By the way people. Elitism is not an issue of how wealthy you are. Elists are thos who believe that they are superior to other for ither that intellectual capacities or of their social standing.consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group Thats according to dictionary . com so you can be rich or exceedingly smart and not be an elitist.People stop calling the candidates elitists. They have their problems but i dont think thats it.

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H. L. Mencken:
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Ideology: Liberal... (*)(*)(*)(*) liberal

Who was the the idiot who said you can't be a liberal and pro-life too?

Bill Maher said it best:

Thats pretty funny

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H. L. Mencken:
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Ideology: Liberal... (*)(*)(*)(*) liberal

Who was the the idiot who said you can't be a liberal and pro-life too?

Not really... Although that is how people use the term often.
An elitist is one who believes in maintaining the elite status of the elites. It is more a class consciousness issue than an individual one: the belief that a set of elites are superior and should retain their privileged position.

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

The clip of Bill Mahr is great. I think people need to accept the fact that as long as it takes tens of millions of dollars to campaign, the country will always be run by the rich (many of which are elitists).

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That's the external, negative definition that has been applied, generally by folks who would like to be considered "of the people" but who are in fact elitist themselves.

Yes, and this reproduction of the elitists' position in society has been replicated over time rather like, to use an anology, a layered cake. Marx called this "the muck of ages" where deep seated and entrenched capitalist ideology frames the consciousnesses of the majority of society. However, there exists a minority who question the prevailing orthodoxy (ie the "false consciousness" as Gramsci put it) of class society. Thus, we arrive at a contradictory consciousness within the system which can only be broken by deconstructing the constructed reality of capitalism - in other words we need to de-layer or reconstitute the individual elements of society (ie the base-superstructure) that make up the cake by breaking it down to its individual constituative elements and then reconstructing it again. Marx attempted to do this in his critique of capitalism in his opus work Das Kapital.