The financial elite are the Corporate elite also. Their perfect State is Kansas, where 99% of the citizens are Republicans and the minimum wage is still $2.65/hr. Everyone behaves themselves and live on the poverty line never complaining and obeying their employers like sheep. Elitism doesn't exist there, or if it does they don't mind. It's like living in the movie "Pleasantville".
There are two forms of elitism that we are dealing with here: Intellectual and financial/political. Barack Obama is 100% intellectual elite, with his first in his class in Harvard education. Then there is financial/political, those who own the media and have the vast amounts of money necessary to buy the government. Rupert Murdoch and the people who run Hearst Magazines are clearly the financial/political side of things. I would far rather have the intellectual elite (also typified by people such as Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln (who was able to educate himself admirably in less than salubrious surroundings) and John F Kennedy) than have the financial elite (represented by people like Bush, Bush, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, well most of the inferior presidents come from this background) or possibly have somebody who are both in the financial and intellectual elite (the Roosevelts and Kennedy) The financial elite only care for one thing: Getting more money. The intellectual elite know that if everybody prospers, things are better overall.
The financial elite are the Corporate elite also. Their perfect State is Kansas, where 99% of the citizens are Republicans and the minimum wage is still $2.65/hr. Everyone behaves themselves and live on the poverty line never complaining and obeying their employers like sheep. Elitism doesn't exist there, or if it does they don't mind. It's like living in the movie "Pleasantville".
There are two forms of elitism that we are dealing with here: Intellectual and financial/political. Barack Obama is 100% intellectual elite, with his first in his class in Harvard education. Then there is financial/political, those who own the media and have the vast amounts of money necessary to buy the government. Rupert Murdoch and the people who run Hearst Magazines are clearly the financial/political side of things. I would far rather have the intellectual elite (also typified by people such as Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln (who was able to educate himself admirably in less than salubrious surroundings) and John F Kennedy) than have the financial elite (represented by people like Bush, Bush, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, well most of the inferior presidents come from this background) or possibly have somebody who are both in the financial and intellectual elite (the Roosevelts and Kennedy) The financial elite only care for one thing: Getting more money. The intellectual elite know that if everybody prospers, things are better overall.