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In reply to the discussion: Democratic elite rally around Hillary Clinton [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)This isn't gossip. A meeting did happen, and words were spoken.
If "incidently, the article is actually putting a negative slant on Hillary" then why the frantic rush to shut it down?
And if someone doesn't know the difference between the contextual use of the word "elite" when dealing with party leaders v. rank and file, and attempts to ascribe the 'monied' definition to the term, I just can't waste my time with that foolishness. The word 'elites' has been used in a political context long before Politico was a shitstain idea on Albritton drawers.
It has to do with influence-makers, people who have been around for a long time, who are party insiders, who know how things work, who know how to organize and influence events.
I'm flummoxed at how obtuse people on the internet have gotten in less than eight years. No one knows what a political elite is, they think it means something other than the obvious; no one is aware of superdelegates, they wrongly believe this is a new thing....it's like a junior high school civics class up in here all of a sudden.
We'll have to get someone to teach the class all about the electoral college--that'll freak 'em out, too, I'm guessing.