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This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."

I can play your little game all night.

Gee, and wasn't George Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, et al the ( gasp ! ) elite ? Wasn't Ronald W. Reagan, movie star, governor, and president ... also one of the elite ?

"The surest way to out a complete loser is when they use the term "elite". Not only does it smack of a whining "loser in like's lottery" it also is right out of Das Capital"
11 posted on 6/9/02 11:04 PM Pacific by Texasforever

"From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."
President Ronald Reagan - Tuesday, January 20th, 1981. President Reagan's First Inaugural Address. Source