[Sandy]

Gee, and wasn't George Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, et al the ( gasp ! ) elite ?

You missed the author's main point. The term is not necessarily pejorative.

When the elite who run a country have good morals and high standards, then you have a good country. If the elite become corrupt, you have a corrupt country.

[nopardons]

I missed nothing. I understand fully what the article said; but I was offering refutation to the MARXIST posts, which were admittedly off topic.

We , as a nation, have been governed by " elites ", of one form or another. The FFs were no exception. Washington was " annointed "; to use mercy's terminology.

Jefferson was a hypocrite , a wasterl, and personally irresponsible.

Burr was Clintonian .

Franklin was a womanizer , as well as having other not so nice traits and habits.

That's just for starters. It's an unnecessary waste of bandwidth, to continue ... but fact is prefferable to myth.