"Elites" are NOT elite

By Desert Woman -

 




Reading various Disqus news sites, I find that one thing really sets me off:  referring to those with extreme wealth and power, as elite.  Seriously?  What is elite about morally bankrupt, corrupt, evil people?  


A truly elite person to me is the hard-working men and women who do everything they can to take the best care of their families, the soldiers who risk their lives for our freedom, the young teenaged boy---my father---who spent all of his free time working jobs after school to help his mother after his father left the family, the first responders who risk it all on a daily basis.....


Instead, we have a large segment of this sick society that glorifies scum.  


The "elitists" of Rome fell, and if continued on the current path, so shall the faux elitists of our world today.

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