Reply #102: Hollywood, to begin with. Entertainment. Urban yuppie culture. [View All]

[secular_warrior]

To understand my point you have to understand that class isn't simply about money in today's world.

Class, in simplest terms, is about one person being above another - for whatever reason.

The culture we have today promotes an image of the rich, perfect looking, socially sophisticated, upwardly mobile, cultural liberal. These elite liberals, working along with the capitalists, use sex and image to make people feel bad about themselves, to make people feel inferior, to make money. They sit in their elite circles at the top of society laughing at the "little people". They live in their rich white oases surrounded by large poverty and crime stricken areas.

Sure, real liberals aren't about materialism and selfishness - but many in the culture who associate themselves with the left are. The celebs and yuppies talk a good game, but at the end of the day they go home to their gated mansions, to their penthouses.

My point is that these folks should be excoriated by the left, for epitomizing the opposite of liberalism, even if they are only a minority, because they are a very visible minority destroying the image of liberals as fighters for the working class hero. As long as the left looks the other way, the faux liberals (the liberal elite) will continue to be associated with real liberals.