Liberal Elitists

[GMDino]

Fred's post about what does "radical" mean must have turned in my brain as I woke up this morning thinking about how the right always complains about "liberal elitists" and how that word doesn't mean the same thing to me that (I think) it does to them.

Obama was a liberal elitist.  Every liberal in hollywood is a liberal elitist.  Etc.

And, to me (not looking up the dictionary definition...sorry bfine) "elitist" means someone with power/money who believes they are above everyone else.  Like a king or a billionaire who spends his time actively trying to get more money from everyone but especially the poorest. 

I never thought Obama fit the elitist label.  I don't think MOST people on either side fit that label.

I think the right TRIES to imply that it's these rich-hollywood-type but they also apply it to anyone who teaches at a college who is liberal.

Almost like disagreeing with a liberal isn't enough.  They need another word to describe them and make they "worse" somehow.  To make the liberal "different" from you and me.

Then today I got to thinking about it and more and more I think people like Carson and Hannity and Limbaugh and the right-wing mouth pieces threw that label and anyone who was educated.  People who spoke well, liked to read and learn.  People who speak above a grade school level.

Obama fit that bill. 

Lots of people fit that bill though.

Is that what they are getting at?  That "elite" means...educated?  Able to talk beyond what you'd hear in 5th grade?

If that's the case why do they hate people who wanted to learn, who read, you educated themselves?  And what is wrong with that?

I could understand it if the accused were talking down to people all the time...but that doesn't seem to be their argument.  The right seems to imply that anyone who is a schooled is an elitist because they can't understand the "common man".

Just a random thought this morning.  Maybe I'm interpreting the right wing noise machine's message wrong?