There is more nuance to the word 'elite' that just meaning one has money.
"Like the notion of social class itself, the idea of a liberal elite originated on the left, among early 20th-century anarchists and Trotskyites who noted, correctly, that the Soviet Union was spawning a "new class" of power-mad bureaucrats. The Trotskyites brought this theory along with them when they mutated into neocons in the 60's, and it was perhaps their most precious contribution to the emerging American right. Backed up by the concept of a "liberal elite," right-wingers could crony around with their corporate patrons in luxuriously appointed think tanks and boardrooms — all the while purporting to represent the average overworked Joe."
Well she was right until the 60's part. She probably should go back a bit to the Rockefellers, Carnegies and other Capitalists of the time. They were the conservatives. The ones that believed in god, love of country and the right to earn a buck without government interference. These were the people that built this country and gave people jobs.
Where the author goes awry is the failure to mention that the "liberal elite" in a move to capitalize on the "plight" of the worker, created unions in the communist model. The liberal elite bueurocracy would govern these people as does a politburo govern a nation.
As we have seen over the last 80+ years, power was the utlimate goal of the liberal elite. The ability to control information to the public, tell individuals what to study, teach communist dogma to children from an early age on was the tools used by the liberal elite to indoctrinate society.
From this the true nature of the elite liberal started to appear. They were not religious therefore religion would have to be removed from American society. The condemnation of their agenda would have to be illegal. The removal of future generations of anti-"liberal elitists" would have to be introduced. Anything that was not condoned by the church would be used as a tool to further the liberal elitists agenda. From this we got abortion, gay marriage, the ACLU and other groups that would do anything to hurt capitalism and the church. PETA, Sierra Club, Green Peace, Planned Parenthood, ACTUP to name a few. Any special interest group was welcome as long as they marched under the liberal elites flag.
Bottom line, the liberal elite became parasites, with the poor, uneducated and minorities as the hosts. They have infected society and the virus was spreading. Then they attacked businesses with sexual harrassment laws, affirmative action and more unionization. Like a virus, once the body was infected, there was no cure. And if there was a cure, laws to prevent the cure were put in place by a liberal criminal justice system.
If you look at our society, you see radical change from the 1950's. What has changed between then and now? What has been secretly placed into the Constitution by Conservatives that required radical change by the liberal elite? The reality of it is, nothing has changed except the need to suck the life out of as many hosts as possible until the virus collapses upon itself and there is nothing left to bleed. It happened in the Soviet Union and it only took 72 years.
Our future generations are at risk of being infected. Conservatism is the cure for the liberal elite parasites. We know it and they know it. Now the American people need to know it.