The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.
I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of way that's meant to capture the hearts of people. And it's all fraud; it's all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if it's proletariat behavior.
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
Only the elites despise earning money.