"Elites" is a Right-Wing Slur Word

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Those who live in glass houses......


Here are the dictionary definitions, both noun and adjective;

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/elite

noun
1 (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
2 (used with a plural verb) persons of the highest class: Only the elite were there.
3 a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group: the power elite of a major political party.
4 a type, approximately 10-point in printing-type size, widely used in typewriters and having 12 characters to the inch.Compare pica1.

adjective
1 representing the most choice or select; best: an elite group of authors.


One problem is even the dictionary has shades to the meaning, and that its both a noun and adjective.

If you interpret it a#1 of either, you could be a Republican or Democrat or not of any party, and still appreciate good cheese and wine. Or good beer and chips for that matter.

if its #2, its used more by the left to describe the most wealthiest classes. The right mocks this interpretation, while at the same time yearning and working to get there. I don't know why that is not used against them as "conservative elites". Don't they have the most billionaires like the Kochs?

If its #3, it could be a description of any political party, or company, or church, or any organization. There is always a top "elite" circle who hold privileged positions. ....cough....

Then there's #5, the Republican's alteration to mean not so much about quality. Not even so much about wealth. Its about arrogance in thinking you are always right. And more than that, you look down on those who disagree with contempt. (more projection) And IMO, at the risk of sounding like an elite liberal, its because we ARE usually right, history proves it, and they hate us for that. So because they can't change the actual facts that prove liberals correct, they re-imagine the messengers as that annoying kid in everyone's class growing up that always shoots their hand up first, the teacher's pet. That even IF they are right, their arrogance, (or projected arrogance) cancels out any truth in their answers.

Biden is using it in a variation of that. He knows that Medicare for All is actually cheaper, and more comprehensive than any private insurance controlled system, and doesn't have an answer to that, so instead deflects it by criticizing the messenger as "my way or the highway" and "elite".