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I'm not sure how I feel about what he's written. One thing that's always somewhat troubled me is how the "right" has effectively used the "elite" moniker as a derisive description of anyone on the left who is intelligent and educated enough to disagree with the ideology and policies of conservatism.
I also think he assumes that the majority of conservatives are informed enough of the issues he discusses (support of despots, oil for food, etc.) to have an opinion based in reality while leftists are either ignorant of those same issues or are just looking the other way when those they support commit crimes against their own people. The truth, in my humble and mediocre opinion, is that most people of any political persuasion are mostly ignorant of the complexities of most issues.
Both the left and the right hold an informed citizenry in disdain as it does not allow them to reduce these issues into simplistic sound bites. The terms Hollywood elite, media elite, university elite, et al. are exactly that. The oversimplification of complexities designed to insinuate that those opposed to conservatism are just too damn big for their own britches and don't care about the concerns of the everyman the same way the conservatives do.
The reality is that both parties have their "elite" establisments and institutions that hold the lesser citizens in contempt. This article focused on just one side of the see saw. The same could be said of conservatives using corresponding terms. That is, if they had lost.
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