To: Steve Lokness who wrote (66197 ) 4/11/2018 9:42:34 PM From: Wharf Rat Respond to Liberal elite Liberal elite (also metropolitan elite in the United Kingdom ) [1] [2] is a pejorative term used to describe people who are politically left of centre , whose education had traditionally opened the doors to affluence and power and form a managerial elite . It is commonly used with the implication that the people who claim to support the rights of the working class are themselves members of the ruling classes and are therefore out of touch with the real needs of the people they claim to support and protect. The phrase "liberal elite" should not be confused with the term "elite" as used by writers such as Vilfredo Pareto and C. Wright Mills . They use the term to mean those who exercise the most political power.secularism , environmentalism, feminism, and other positions associated with the left.[ not verified in body ]Labor Party , the Liberal Party is a conservative party whose name is based on their objective to liberalise the market economy within Australia. In the UK, the Liberal Democrats occupy the political centre between the rightist Conservative and the leftist Labour parties, though the term "metropolitan elite" is frequently used in reference to Labour politicians edit ]Dave Barry drew attention to these stereotypes when he commented, "Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying roadkill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts?" [3] 2008 presidential election , Republican candidate John McCain likened Democratic candidate Barack Obama 's celebrity appeal to that of pop star Britney Spears and socialite Paris Hilton . [4] right wing organization Club for Growth attacked the Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean by portraying him as part of the liberal elite: "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times -reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs." [5] upper middle class not upper class , [6] are primarily liberal. As of 2005, approximately 72% of professors identify themselves as liberals. At Ivy League Universities, an even larger majority, 87% of professors identified themselves as liberals. [7] Those with post- graduate degrees are increasingly Democratic. [8] [9] [10] [11] Thomas Frank 's book What's the Matter with Kansas? the idea of a liberal elite is compared to George Orwell's character Emmanuel Goldstein in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four , the fictional hated enemy of the people. Frank argues that anger directed towards this perceived enemy is what keeps the conservative coalition together. [12]
