Hmmm...your point, Poppinjay, is well taken. Perhaps a better term to have used was...
snob. Elitist, perhaps, is being used in place of snobbish, because it sounds better.
You're absolutely correct. And I was actually in the SAC
Elite Guard, when I was serving in the United States Air Force. Perhaps I should know better (must be that Community College education of mine
) I too want the elite to be at the forefront. But the
true elite do not look down their noses at the rest. The
true elite have risen to the top by their own desire to do so, not because they happened to be able to get into the "right" school and subsequently look down on those who, for whatever reason, did not. Those people are not, by your definition, what I would consider..."elite". They are...elit
ist. Placed at the top of the heap...in their own mind.