Paragraphs I wish I had written

From Doc Alterman:

I’m growing increasingly obsessed with the almost perfectly crazy use of “elitist” in our political culture. In the first place, I have no problem with genuine elitism. A society of 300 million people requires elites to help it function. It couldn’t possibly do otherwise. The problem with our elite is that, to put it gently, they’re a bunch of jerks. On the one hand, whenever their power is slightly challenged, they act like a bunch seventh-grade “Heathers.”