Italian stereotypes & jokes in 3...2...1
Is this not also true - Albeit in varying degree - Of American politician and media "elites"? They are so busy hectoring us with their insufferably arrogant "I know best" attitudes they don't have time to do any listening.
The elites believe their main job is to figure out how to coerce/trick the majority of Americans into accepting THEIR view of the world (With them at the top of the heap, naturally, the divine right of enlightened elitist "kings" being what it is) and they will do and say whatever they think will sell their message while denigrating what the average citizen might believe, at every opportunity.