frankly, what I think we're doing here, is documenting the last gasps of democracy. Updated

[Bluenorthwest]

301. Yes, elitism has a blind appeal. Look at the chosen verbiage in this thread. It's all about self

congratulation 'we get it' and 'they don't. People post from nice addresses about 'my wife and I say the same thing, the masses don't get it but we do'.
They cast themselves as the few, the wise, the sages. The 'masses' are duped, fooled, unaware.
"Some of us saw it before the others" they say. That's what it is all about.
Then note that as always in such threads, Mencken is quoted. An elitist, racist opponent of representative democracy who literally believed in rule by elites and who literally thought African Americans to be inferior.

If you say 'Some of us get it, the masses don't, let me quote a famous elitist racist to support my views' I'm going to say that's elitist and offer up the world view of Howard Zinn to counter Mencken. I agree with Zinn. I do not agree with Mencken.